Reed v. the Yaka

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1963-05-27

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Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, a longshoreman, filed a libel in rem in a United States District Court against the steamship Yaka to recover for injuries he sustained while engaged in loading the vessel. The Yaka’s owner, Waterman Steamship Corporation, appeared as claimant of the ship but brought in as an additional defendant petitioner’s employer,…

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