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Admiralty- Shipowner's Right To Indemnification For Loss Caused By Latently Defective Gear Supplied By Nonnegligent Stevedoring-Compnay, John W. Erickson
Admiralty- Shipowner's Right To Indemnification For Loss Caused By Latently Defective Gear Supplied By Nonnegligent Stevedoring-Compnay, John W. Erickson
Michigan Law Review
Defendant stevedoring company contracted to perform stevedoring services for plaintiff shipowner. Pursuant to its agreement to supply gear for the job, the stevedoring company supplied a latently defective rope, the breaking of which caused injury to a longshoreman, an employee of the stevedoring company. The longshoreman obtained a judgment against the shipowner under the doctrine of unseaworthiness, and in a separate action the shipowner sought indemnification from the stevedoring company. The district court, finding the stevedoring company not negligent, denied recovery. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed, one judge dissenting. On certiorari to the United States Supreme …
Admiralty-Laches-Expiration Of Analogous State Statute Of Limitations As Ground For Dismissal, Herbert H. Brown
Admiralty-Laches-Expiration Of Analogous State Statute Of Limitations As Ground For Dismissal, Herbert H. Brown
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a seaman on the S.S. Ioannis, was injured when the Ioannis and the S.S. Stony Point collided. By the time plaintiff filed his action, the three-year state statute of limitations for personal injuries caused by negligence had expired. The District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the complaint on the ground that the expiration of the state statute of limitations caused the plaintiff's action to be barred by !aches. On appeal, held, vacated and remanded. Expiration of the analogous state statute of limitations does not give rise to a presumption that the plaintiff's delay …
Maritime Contiguous Zones, Lloyd C. Fell
Maritime Contiguous Zones, Lloyd C. Fell
Michigan Law Review
During the past two centuries, various states which had previously limited their claims of full sovereignty to narrow marginal seas have also asserted special types of jurisdiction over high seas zones outside what they claimed (or what others accepted) as territorial waters. This comment deals with such claims to contiguous zones of the high seas over which the littoral state asserts authority: which may affect the interests of other states.
Federal Civil Procedure-Venue-Effect Of 1948 Judicial Code Definition Of Corporate Residence On Venue Under The Jones Act, Mary Mandana Long
Federal Civil Procedure-Venue-Effect Of 1948 Judicial Code Definition Of Corporate Residence On Venue Under The Jones Act, Mary Mandana Long
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff seaman, having been injured while serving on a vessel owned and operated by the defendant corporations, brought a civil action in federal district court alleging claims for negligence under the Jones Act, for unseaworthiness, and for maintenance and cure. The venue provision of the Jones Act requires that actions under it be brought in the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located. Plaintiff filed his complaint in the Western District of Pennsylvania although defendants were incorporated and maintained their principal offices in Louisiana. Defendants' motions to dismiss on the ground of …
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this paper will be to analyze the origin of the concept, trace its (their) development, point out the most commonly used meanings, and then demonstrate the substantial irrelevance of the concept, by any of these definitions, to present-day river navigation and trade problems.