Legal Opinion
Morales v. City of Galveston
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided March 24, 1959No. 2013PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONNALLY, District Judge.
This is an in personam proceeding in admiralty, brought by eight longshoremen, as libellants, to recover for personal injuries which, it is alleged, they received from breathing noxious fumes and gases while they were employed loading or “trimming” wheat aboard a vessel at Galveston, Texas. Respondents are (a) the City of Galveston, owner and operator of the grain elevator wherein the wheat in question had been stored, and from which it was being loaded aboard the vessel, and (b) the owner and operator of the vessel in question.
As to their cause of action against the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Workman v. New York CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- City of Houston v. HruskaTexas Supreme Court · 1955
- McMahan v. the PanamolgaDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1955
- Miranda v. City of GalvestonDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1951
3Cited by13 opinions
- Morales v. City of GalvestonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Robert Morales v. City of GalvestonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Antill v. Public Grain ElevatorLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1991
- Moore v. Hampton Roads Sanitation District CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
- Castorina v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.District Court, S.D. Texas · 1984
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