Irene Hill, Administratrix of the Estate of Benjamin Hill, Deceased v. Waterman Steamship Corporation
This text of 251 F.2d 655 (Irene Hill, Administratrix of the Estate of Benjamin Hill, Deceased v. Waterman Steamship Corporation) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
This case is squarely ruled against the appellant by our prior decisions in Klingseisen v. Costanzo Transp. Co., 3 Cir., 1939, 101 F.2d 902, and Curtis v. A. Garcia y Cia., 3 Cir., 1957, 241 F.2d 30. We are, however, urged by the appellant to overrule those cases and now hold that the admiralty doctrine of comparative negligence is to be applied in a suit under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Act, 12 P.S. § 1601 et seq., for the death of a longshoreman on board a vessel in the port of Philadelphia instead of the Pennsylvania contributory negligence rule. We are satisfied, however, that the cases cited were correctly decided and we will accordingly follow and apply the rule laid down in them.
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.
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