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VANCOUVER S.S. CO. v. RICE

No. 469.

288 U.S. 445 (1933)

53 S.Ct. 420

77 L.Ed. 885

VANCOUVER STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., v. RICE, ADMINISTRATRIX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 13, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Erskine Wood for petitioner.

Mr. Arthur I. Moulton submitted for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner is the owner of the steamship City of Vancouver. December 1, 1929, she was at Westport, Oregon, in navigable waters of the Columbia taking on a cargo of lumber. Respondent's intestate was employed by contracting stevedores who were loading her. While upon the deck of the ship helping in that work he was struck by a falling sling-load of lumber and mortally injured. He was taken ashore where he died...

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