Miller v. Western Stevedore Co.

On Rehearing.

In the petition for rehearing in this case our attention is especially called to two decisions both of which were cited in the briefs in the case and considered at the time the Departmental opinion was written, but it was not then thought necessary to specially notice them. One of these cases is Alaska Pacific Steamship Co. v. Egan, 202 Fed. 867, which differs from the case now before us in that there the action was not against a stevedore contracting to do a particular thing upon a vessel and using the vessel’s appliances in pursuit of the work. The other case, that of Port of…