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Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson

  • 347 U.S. 396
  • 74 S. Ct. 601
  • 98 L. Ed. 2d 798
  • 1954 U.S. LEXIS 2618
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Jun 1, 1954
Status
Published
On the bench
Burton
Cited by
309 cases
Authority
More cited than 99.8%

affirming per curiam a Ninth Circuit opinion, 205 F.2d 478 (9th Cir. 1953), allowing seaworthiness recovery to stevedore injured by breaking block owned and brought on board by stevedoring company

How later courts described this case

  • affirming per curiam a Ninth Circuit opinion, 205 F.2d 478 (9th Cir. 1953), allowing seaworthiness recovery to stevedore injured by breaking block owned and brought on board by stevedoring company
  • to the effect that when a stevedore brings aboard the ship defective equipment which causes an accident the ship is made unseaworthy
  • who for breach of the independent duty of proper stowage could have impleaded Rudolph. Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp., 350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133 (1956)

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed. Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, 328 U. S. 85, 100 ; Pope & Talbot v. Hawn, 346 U. S. 406 .

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