Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Coastal Oil Co.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 11, 1954No. Civ. A. 1164-52PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTSHORNE, District Judge.
Does a pot-pourri of homosexuality and attempted murder create an unseaworthy ship ? Such is the primary issue here presented, the other, the validity of a seaman’s release.
Plaintiff Thompson, a colored cook, long at sea, signed on the S. S. Rosina Marrón, a tanker owned and operated by defendant. The vessel carried a complement of some forty men, including among them one Medina, a Cuban, as crew mess-man. Medina was definitely effeminate, a “queer”, called Rosina or other feminine names by all aboard the ship, who at times was seen kissing other members of the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Garrett v. Moore-Mccormack Co., Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952
- Sitchon v. American Export Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- Bonici v. Standard Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Floyd Wesley Clevenger v. Star Fish & Oyster Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Joseph Walters v. Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
- Edward Connolly v. Farrell Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1959
- Evans v. United Arab Shipping Co.(SAG)District Court, D. New Jersey · 1992
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