Legal Opinion

Bonnewell v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided November 4, 1948No. 5768PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The libellant in the District Court suffered the fracture of his right arm and consequent loss of earnings when he stumbled and fell over a pad-eye or iron fastening attached to the deck of the flying bridge on the steamship Halaula Victory, -owned by the United States, and operated by the Matson Navigation Company as its agent. Bonn-ewell was a tug boat captain -and master mariner of long experience, and was employed at the time by the Wood Towing Company which had undertaken at the request of the agent of the ship to shift her from the north to the south side of a pier…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
  3. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. BrasileiroCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
  4. Barbarino v. Stanhope S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. David B. Dale v. Henry P. Rosenfeld, Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Henry P. Rosenfeld Co., Samson Wallach and Abraham S. GechtmanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
  2. Bielunas v. F/V Misty Dawn, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2010
  3. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. the SS BeatriceDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1958
  4. Verbeeck v. Black Diamond Steamship Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1959
  5. Osnovitz v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1951

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