Legal Opinion
Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 14, 1962No. 282PublishedCited by 625 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Leighton Beard was a longshoreman employed by Atlantic and Gulf Stevedores, Inc. Atlantic, the petitioner, performed stevedoring services for respondents. Beard received injuries while helping to discharge bales of burlap from a vessel owned by respondents. These bales, loaded in India, were bound by four parallel one-inch steel bands that petitioner had not placed around the bales but were part of the cargo; and each bale, containing 30 to 40 bolts of burlap, was stowed in tiers. The discharging operation consisted of pulling the bales from their stowed positions to the hatch and then…
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