Legal Opinion
Taylor v. McManigal
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 12, 1937No. 7427PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HICKS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was the operator of the passenger steamer, City of Grand Rapids, plying between Chicago and Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. At the close of the 1934 season the boat was docked in Benton Harbor. On May 28, 1935, while she was being conditioned there for the 1935 season, Burgoyne Watkins, an employee of appellant and husband of Ellice Watkins, appellee, was, with another employee, engaged in front of the boiler in putting in a pit plate. While at this work, he undertook to adjust an electric light cord and received a shock from which he died. An award was entered in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Crowell v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- AO Smith Corporation v. Petroleum Iron Works Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1934
- De Wald v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1934
- The Bound BrookDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1906
- Seneca Washed Gravel Corporation v. McManigalCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
3Cited by15 opinions
- Wilkes v. Mississippi River Sand & Gravel Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1953
- Felix Bodden v. Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. BassettCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1939
- Antus v. Interocean S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1939
- Luckenbach S. S. Co. v. NortonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1938
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