Atlantic Transport Co. of W. Va. v. Imbrovek
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which 'involve the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States courts over suits for personal injuries sustained on a vessel in port while being loaded by á stevedore, and questions of negligence of the stevedore, are stated in the opinion.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which 'involve the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States courts over suits for personal injuries sustained on a vessel in port while being loaded by á stevedore, and questions of negligence of the stevedore, are stated in the opinion. Admiralty has not jurisdiction; locality is not the sole test of jurisdiction; the tort is not of a.maritime nature; the master did not fail to furnish a safe place to labor; failure to use pins was not the proximate cause; there was no evidence to show that the master failed to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
This is a libel to recover for personal injuries sustained by the libelant as a stevedore in the employ of the Atlantic Transport Company (the petitioner) which was engaged in loading the Pretoria, belonging to the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, while lying in the port of Baltimore. The libel was brought against both the owner of the ship and the stevedore company. It was dismissed as to the former, but a recovery against the latter was allowed by the District Court (190 Fed. Rep. 229) and sustained by the Circuit Court of Appeals (193 Fed. Rep. 1019). This writ of certiorari was…
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