SENTILLES

v.

INTER-CARIBBEAN SHIPPING CORP.

Citator

Cited By

• Sentilles v. Inter-Caribbean Shipping Corp., 361 U.S. 107 (U.S. 1959)
  …on and reversed, 256 F. 2d 156. We granted certiorari on a petition in which it was asserted that the Cou,rt of Appeals had applied. an improper standard in reviewing the medical evidence and in examining the judgment rendered on the jury’s verdict. 359 U. S. 923. There was evidence that petitioner (whose medical history was an active one) had been examined several times by his regular physician in the year preceding the accident, as recently as two months before it, with no appearance of tuberculosis being…
• Hess v. United States, 361 U.S. 314 (U.S. 1960)
  …at act were applied, the United States would not be liable thereunder because it was not responsible for the work being performed by the decedent.” 259 F. 2d 285, 292. Certiorari was granted to consider a seemingly important question of federal law. 359 U. S. 923. As this case reaches us, the petitioner no longer challenges the finding that the United States was not guilty of such negligence as would make it liable under the wrongful death statute of Oregon. His sole claim here is that he was erroneously de…
• Goett v. Union Carbide Corp., 361 U.S. 340 (U.S. 1960)
  …s owed. In the light of this determination, it did not pass on the question whether unseaworthiness would be in any event available as a groiind for recovery in a. West Virginia wrongful death action involving a maritime tort. We granted certiorari. 359 U. S. 923. This case was decided in the lower courts before the decision of this Court in The Tungus v. Skovgaard, 358 U. S. 588, where it was held that it .was a question of state law as to what is the proper substantive law to be applied to maritime torts…