Legal Opinion

The President Madison

District Court, W.D. Washington

Decided December 21, 1926No. 11074PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the CourtNeterer, District Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The Washington statute, giving a lien for injuries com-' mitted to person, does not extend to the representative of decedent for wrongful death (The Alaska [D. C.] 225 F. 645), nor could the seaman impress a lien for personal injury for the negligence of the master or *527members of tbe crew. Tbe damage was not done by the ship, but by a portable “gangplank” or “gangway” wrongfully placed by the master and officers of the ship. See The Osceola, 189 U. S. 158, at pages 176, 177, 23 S. Ct. 483, 47 L. Ed. 760. Justice Brown, for the court, at page 172 (23 S. Ct.…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  2. The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
  3. The Moses TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
  4. Panama Railroad v. VasquezSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  5. The AlaskaDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1915

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Pedersen v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1936

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