Legal Opinion
West v. United States
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 2, 1956No. 419 of 1952PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARY, District Judge.
This action was instituted by libellant, Edgar Allen West, against the United States of America to recover damages for injuries sustained aboard the S. S. Mary Austin, a Liberty Ship owned by the respondent, United States of America. The United States impleaded the libellant’s employer, Atlantic Port Contractors, Inc. A trial was held before the Court, sitting without a jury, on February 13 and 14, 1956. Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, and briefs in support thereof, having been submitted by all of the parties, the Court makes the following
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2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. HawnSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Guerrini v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1948
- Cookingham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
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3Cited by21 opinions
- West v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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- Union Carbide Corp. v. GoettCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1958
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