Legal Opinion
Cain v. Alpha SS Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 20, 1929No. 367PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action at law for an assault upon a seaman by a subordinate officer, while both were employed upon an American vessel owned by one of the defendants and operated or controlled by the others. It was committed on shipboard when the vessel lay in a Venezuelan port. Jurisdiction of the District Court is founded upon diverse citizenship. The parties have assumed, and rightly so, that the law applicable to this situation is the general maritime law of the United States. See Roberts v. Skolfield, Fed. Cas. No. 11,917; Port of New York Stevedoring Corp. v. Castagna, 280…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Carlisle Packing Co. v. SandangerSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- The IroquoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Winter's AdministratorSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- Koehler v. Presque-Isle Transp. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- Nelson v. American-West African Line, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1936
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