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SWANSON v. MARRA BROS.

No. 405.

328 U.S. 1 (1946)

66 S.Ct. 869

90 L.Ed. 1045

SWANSON v. MARRA BROTHERS, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 22, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham E. Freedman argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Charles Lakatos.

Joseph W. Henderson argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was George M. Brodhead.

Opinion of the Court by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE, announced by MR. JUSTICE BLACK.

Petitioner, a longshoreman in the employ of respondent stevedoring company, while on a pier and engaged in loading cargo on a vessel lying alongside in the harbor of Philadelphia, was struck by a life raft which fell from the vessel and injured him. The question for decision, which was reserved in O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 318 U.S. 36...

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