WORKMAN

v.

BOONE ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Merrill Tr. Co. v. Merrill Bradford, 507 F.2d 467 (1st Cir. 1974)
  …n a vessel strikes an obvious, or well charted, stationary object. Cf. The Clarita and the Clara, 1874, 90 U.S. (23 Wall.) 1, 14, 23 L.Ed. 146; Cranberry Creek Coal Co. v. Red Star Towing & Transp. Co., 2 Cir., 1929, 33 F. 2d 272, 274, cert. denied, 280 U.S. 596, 50 S.Ct. 67, 74 L.Ed. 643; Burr v. Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co., 1 Cir., 1904, 132 F. 248. We do not accept defendant’s claim that the presumption is not applicable.5 However, the presumption is of no assistance. Rationally based upon the premis…
• Atkins v. Ludvig Lorentzen, 328 F.2d 66 (5th Cir. 1964)
  …ith proof that the cause of accident in no way resulted from a failure of due care on its part. Cranberry Creek Coal Co. v. Red Star Towing & Transportation Co., 2 Cir. 1929, 33 F. 2d 272, cert. den’d New York Marine Co. v. Cranberry Creek Coal Co., 280 U.S. 596, 50 S.Ct. 67, 74 L.Ed. 643; The Olympia, 6 Cir. 1894, 61 F. 120. In the Cranberry Creek case Judge Learned Hand pointed out: “Strictly, it is no defense at all, but a true presumption; that is to say, a duty laid upon him to supply proof which cast…
• Porto RICO Lighterage Co. v. Capitol Constr. Co., Inc., 287 F.2d 507 (1st Cir. 1961)
  …re, at least to the extent of going forward with evidence. The William E. Reed, supra; see Cranberry Creek Coal Co. v. Red Star Towing & Transp. Co., 2 Cir., 1929, 33 F. 2d 272, 274, certiorari denied New York Marine Co. v. Cranberry Creek Coal Co., 280 U.S. 596, 50 S.Ct. 67, 74 L.Ed. 643; cf. Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp., 1941, 314 U.S. 104, 62 S.Ct. 156, 86 L.Ed. 89. A review of the record convinces us that the district court, rather than finding against petitioner for failure to…