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ITALIA SOC. v. ORE. STEVEDORING CO.

No. 82.

376 U.S. 315 (1964)

ITALIA SOCIETA PER AZIONI DI NAVIGAZIONE v. OREGON STEVEDORING CO., INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 9, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erskine B. Wood argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Erskine Wood.

Floyd A. Fredrickson argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Alfred A. Hampson.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Douglas and Sherman L. Cohn for the United States, and by J. Ward O'Neill, Charles B. Howard, Scott H. Elder and J. Stewart Harrison for the American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc., et al.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action by a shipowner, Italia Societa per Azioni di Navigazione (Italia), against a contracting stevedore company, Oregon Stevedoring Company (Oregon), to recover indemnity for breach of the stevedore's implied warranty of workmanlike service. The issue presented is whether the warranty is breached where the stevedore has nonnegligently supplied defective equipment...

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