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PARK v. UNITED STATES LINES, INC.

No. 266, September Term, 1981.

50 Md. App. 389 (1982)

439 A.2d 10

JONG HEE PARK ET AL. v. UNITED STATES LINES, INC. ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Bekman, with whom were Daniel S. Katz and Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P.A. on the brief, for appellants.

Donald A. Krach, with whom were Niles, Barton & Wilmer on the brief, for appellee I.T.O. John H. West, III, with whom were Kieron F. Quinn, M. Hamilton Whitman, Jr. and Ober, Grimes & Shriver on the brief, for appellee United States Lines, Inc. James R. Eyler and Miles & Stockbridge on the brief for appellee Clark. David W. Skeen and Constable, Alexander, Daneker & Skeen on the brief for appellees Svendborg, Moller and Maersk.

The cause was argued before MORTON, COUCH and MacDANIEL, JJ.

MORTON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal presents for resolution a question of first impression in this State. We must decide whether a vessel berthed in port and a stevedoring concern employed to unload it have a duty to warn land-based longshoremen of bad weather which might render hazardous unloading operations, and to suspend unloading operations until such unsafe conditions no longer exist.

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