Legal Opinion
Swanson v. Marra Brothers, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 22, 1946No. 405PublishedCited by 240 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Mr. Chief Justice Stone,
announced by Mr. Justice Black.
Petitioner, a longshoreman in the employ of respondent stevedoring company, while on a pier and engaged in loading cargo on a vessel lying alongside in the harbor of Philadelphia, was struck by a life raft which fell from the vessel and injured him. The question for decision, which was reserved in O’Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 318 U. S. 36, 43, 44, is whether petitioner may maintain a suit against his employer to recover for the injury, under the Jones Act, 41 Stat. 1007, 46 U. S. C. § 688.
Petitioner,…
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