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Reed v. The Yaka, 373 U.S. 410 (1963)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Reed v. The Yaka, 373 U.S. 410 (1963)
Reed v. The Yaka No. 509 Argued April 22, 1963 Decided May 27, 1963 373 U.S. 410
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
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Petitioner, a longshoreman, filed a libel in rem in a Federal District Court against a ship for injuries sustained while engaged in loading the ship as an employee of a corporation which was operating it under a bareboat charter. The District Judge found that, at the time of the injury, petitioner was aboard the ship, standing on a stack of wooden pallets used in loading the ship, and that the sole cause of the injury was a latent defect in one of the planks of a pallet, which caused it to break. He held that the defective pallet supplied by the chartering corporation rendered the ship unseaworthy, and that, therefore, petitioner could recover against the ship. The corporation contended that it could not be held liable in damages to petitioner, because it was petitioner’s employer, and the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act provides that compensation liability of an employer under that Act is exclusive and in place of any other liability on his part.
Held: Petitioner was not barred by that Act from relying on the corporation’s liability as a shipowner pro hac vice for the ship’s unseaworthiness in order to support his libel in rem against the ship. Pp. 410-416.
307 F.2d 203 reversed.
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