Raymond E. Pryor, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marion L. Stephens, Deceased v. American President Lines

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

We heard this case on February 5, 1975, and released our slip opinion on March 17, 1975. We held that if defectively packaged goods in a railroad car on a pier are released by action of a ship’s winch so as to cause injury, there exists a sufficiently close causal relationship between operation of the ship’s gear and the injury to invoke the admiralty doctrine of unseaworthiness. On petition for rehearing by American President Lines, we withdraw our prior opinion. We are now convinced that the law of admiralty has no application to the facts of this case, and that the…