Court Opinion

ID: 9447119
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:26:11.614094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:54.380204
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GOODRICH, Circuit Judge
(concurring in dissent).
I agree with what Chief Judge BIGGS has said in his dissent. I only want to add one idea. It seems to me that with the elimination of the necessity of contract between shipowner and stevedore, as I think the Crumady case decides, we may have developing here a situation in which rights of shipowner against stevedore may be analyzed as growing out of a relationship between them not dependent upon contract. The stevedore comes on the ship to perform labor and he comes with the permission of the shipowner. It seems to me out of this permission and the relation established thereby there can well be a duty owed to the shipowner not to create, by the acts of the stevedore, a situation which will cause loss to the shipowner. An analogy is to be found in the duty of a person responsible for the conduct of another to be indemnified by the other for expense made in discharge of such a responsibility. See Restatement, Restitution, §§ 96-99.