Legal Opinion
Waldron v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 12, 1967No. 233PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
delivered the.opinion of the Court.
The single legal question presented by this case is whether a vessel is unseaworthy when its officers assign too few crewmen to perform a particular task in a safe and prudent manner. It is to resolve this question, which the lower courts answered in the negative1 and which has caused a conflict afnong circuits,2 that we granted certiorari. 385 U. S. 810.
*725Petitioner, a member of the crew of respondent’s vessel S. S. Mormacwind, was engaged with four other seamen in a docking operation at the stern of the vessel as it approached a pier. At the last minute, the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik FisserSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Alaska Steamship Co. v. PettersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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3Cited by133 opinions
- Victory Carriers, Inc. v. LawSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Usner v. Luckenbach Overseas Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Usner v. Luckenbach Overseas Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Charles Clauson v. Robert D. SmithCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Thomas D. Joyce v. Atlantic Richfield Company, a Pennsylvania CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
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