Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1944-01-31

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*97 Me. Chief Justice Stone delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, a seaman on respondent’s vessel, the “Wichita Falls,” was injured, while at sea, by a fall from a staging, which gave way when a piece of defective rope supporting it parted. The rope was supplied by the mate w…

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