PRYOR v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

No. 74-1699.

520 F.2d 974 (1975)

Raymond E. PRYOR, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marion L. Stephens, Deceased, Appellant, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1975.

Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Lentz, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

John T. Ward, Baltimore, Md. (Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and CRAVEN and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 787.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

We heard this case on February 5, 1975, and released our slip opinion on March 17, 1975. We held that if defectively packaged goods in a railroad car on a pier are released by action of a ship's winch so as to cause injury, there exists a sufficiently close causal relationship between operation of the ship's gear and the injury to invoke the admiralty doctrine of unseaworthiness....

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