Court Opinion

ID: 8717509
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 08:00:18.167608+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:58:52.321115
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NOONAN, District Judge.
Motion granted as to the first cause of action. Seaworthiness is peculiarly and exclusively the obligation of the owner of the vessel. Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, 328 U.S. 85, 100, 66 S.Ct. 872, 90 L.Ed. 1099.
Motion denied as to the second cause of action. Cf. Weade v. Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Inc., 337 U.S. 801, 808, 809, 69 S.Ct. 1326, 93 L.Ed. 1704; Greer v. Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., 1949 A.M.C. 1825.