Legal Opinion
Beebe v. Moormack Gulf Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 31, 1932No. 6366PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
Harrison H. Knighton was employed as an oiler in the engine room of a ship, and was killed on navigable waters through the negligence of the ship’s owners. He was survived by a wife and child and his mother in Arkansas, and by Marian Beebe, with whom some weeks before his death he had gone through a marriage ceremony in Louisiana, smd had since Ihed in New Orleans, supporting her as his wife, she not knowing until after his death of his prior marriage. The ship’s owners settled with Knighton’s administrator with respect to1 the claims of his mother, wife, and child. The…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Lindgren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. KenneySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Vaughan v. Dalton-Lard Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
- Jones v. Powell Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
3Cited by14 opinions
- Patricia Lebouef Murphy, as Administratrix of the Estate of Edward Fontenot, Deceased, Etc. v. Houma Well Service, and Eva C. Fontenot, IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Lawson v. United States. Retz v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Bell v. Tug ShrikeCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
- Gibson v. HughesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1961
- Lawson v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1950
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