Legal Opinion
Usner v. Luckenbach Overseas Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 25, 1971No. 47PublishedCited by 258 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The petitioner, a longshoreman employed by an independent stevedoring contractor, was injured while engaged with his fellow employees in loading cargo aboard *495the S. S. Edgar F. Luckeribach. He brought this action for damages against the respondents, the owner and the charterer of the ship, in a federal district court, alleging that his injuries had been caused by the ship’s unseaworthiness.
In the course, of pretrial proceedings the circumstances under which the petitioner had been injured were fully disclosed, and they are not in dispute. On the day in .question the ship lay moored to a dock…
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- Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by258 opinions
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- Charles Clauson v. Robert D. SmithCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
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