Legal Opinion
Burie v. Overseas Navigation Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 24, 1962PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COOPER, District Judge.
This is a suit by some twenty-one merchant seamen against the erstwhile owners of the SS LOMALAND, based, primarily, upon a claim of wrongful discharge and, alternatively, upon alleged violations of the statutory provisions governing shipment of seamen.
In essence the libel grows out of two principal alternative theories of recovery: (1) that respondents wrongfully discharged these seamen in violation of their original shipping articles; and (2) that for part of the voyage libellants were unlawfully taken to sea without written articles and hence may recover the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Lauritzen v. LarsenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- The BelgenlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Mason v. Ship BlaireauSupreme Court of the United States · 1804
- Rainey v. New York & P. S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1914
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Teixeira v. Van Camp Seafood Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Burie v. Overseas Navigation Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- Burie v. Overseas Navigation Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- John J. Teixeira, Sr. v. Van Camp Seafood CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986