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GOETT, v. UNION CARBIDE CORP.

No. 3.

361 U.S. 340 (1960)

80 S.Ct. 357

4 L.Ed.2d 341

GOETT, ADMINISTRATRIX, v. UNION CARBIDE CORP. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Goldstein argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Ernest Franklin Pauley and S. Eldridge Sampliner.

Charles M. Love argued the cause and filed a brief for the Union Carbide Corporation, respondent. Homer A. Holt, William T. O'Farrell and David D. Johnson filed a brief for the Amherst Barge Co., respondent.

PER CURIAM.

This was a libel in admiralty brought against respondent Union Carbide Corporation by petitioner, the administratrix of Marvin Paul Goett. Goett had been an employee of respondent Amherst Barge Company, which was engaged in repairing a river barge owned by Union. The decedent was working on the barge when he fell off into the waters of the Kanawha River, and, after fruitless efforts at rescue, was drowned. The theory of the libel was that, alternatively...

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