Hanrahan v. Pacific Transport Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action at law by William F. Iianrahan against the Pacific Transport Company, limited. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. The Pacific Company is the owner of a steamship, and iianrahan was a member of her crew.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action at law by William F. Iianrahan against the Pacific Transport Company, limited. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. The Pacific Company is the owner of a steamship, and iianrahan was a member of her crew. The vessel being in port, and fast to a pier, Iianrahan returned at night from shore leave, and while walking on the Upper deck, and toward, his quarters, fell overboard, suffering personal injuries, for which he brought this common-law action. Wo assume for the purposes of this…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). If defendant, as master, had been constructing a house, instead of operating a ship, and plaintiff (the servant) had fallen from a defective scaffold, instead of from an unguarded deck, the resulting injury would have conferred both a common-law right and a common-law remedy, and such right would (or might) have resulted from breach of a contract recognized, if not created, by the common law.
At the time of this accident, however, plaintiff’s relation to defendant resulted from a maritime contract, viz. his hiring as a seaman. *952The scope and effect of such…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- M'lanahan v. the Universal Insurance CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1828
- The Bouker No. 2Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1917
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- Daniels v. Pacific-Atlantic S. S. Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1954
- Edward S. Mesle v. Kea Steamship Corporation, (Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corporation)Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1958
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