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A. & G. STEVEDORES v. ELLERMAN LINES

No. 282.

369 U.S. 355 (1962)

ATLANTIC & GULF STEVEDORES, INC., v. ELLERMAN LINES, LTD., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 2, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis E. Marshall argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was James J. Davis, Jr.

Thomas E. Byrne, Jr. argued the cause and filed briefs for respondents.

Martin J. McHugh argued the cause for the National Association of Stevedores, as amicus curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief was James M. Leonard.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Leighton Beard was a longshoreman employed by Atlantic and Gulf Stevedores, Inc. Atlantic, the petitioner, performed stevedoring services for respondents. Beard received injuries while helping to discharge bales of burlap from a vessel owned by respondents. These bales, loaded in India, were bound by four parallel one-inch steel bands that petitioner had not placed around the bales but were part of the cargo...

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