[DOWNLOAD] "Smith v. Acadia Overseas Freighters" by United States Court Of Appeals Third Circuit. # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Smith v. Acadia Overseas Freighters
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Third Circuit.
- Release Date : January 10, 1953
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The suit at bar is based on a maritime claim for personal injuries suffered by the libellant, Smith, an employee of a stevedoring contractor, on board the S.S. Victoria County at dock at Chester, Pennsylvania. Various grounds of liability are alleged including failure by the ship and the shipowner, the respondents, to provide a safe place to work, failure to supply safe appliances and appurtenances, and failure to supply adequate supervision. The court below concluded that the injury was caused by a defect in an extension ladder which Smith and another employee of the stevedoring contractor were using in the No. 4 hold and that, since it was not proved by Smith that the ship furnished the ladder, to hold the ship or the shipowner liable "* * * would constitute an unwarranted extension of the doctrine of Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, 1946, 328 U.S. 85, 66 S. Ct. 872, 90 L. Ed. 1099". [104 F.Supp. 795.]