PAUL v. UNITED STATES

No. 10895.

205 F.2d 38 (1953)

PAUL v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1953.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Weiner, Philadelphia, Pa. (Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

John B. Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa. (Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Krusen, Evans & Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and GOODRICH and KALODNER, Circuit Judges.


KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

Other than in the immediate vicinity of a vessel's gangplank, is a shipowner under a duty to provide safe means of passage from or to the vessel over a dock area over which the shipowner has no control and/or to inspect and give warning of the conditions prevailing along the dock's passageway?

That is the primary issue presented by this appeal from the Order of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania decreeing judgment...

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