Court Opinion

ID: 9462341
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:39:04.938461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:33.315462
License: Public Domain

RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result.
It is conceded that there was a contract whereby the United States for a consideration agreed with States Line to furnish ship-to-shore transportation for the States Line crew aboard the SS Hawaii. It is likewise conceded that the negligence of the United States resulted in Flunker’s injury.
It was an implied term of the contract to furnish transportation to the States Line crew that the United States would use reasonable care in furnishing that transportation, i. e., it would transport members of the SS Hawaii crew without negligence. It was because of the failure of the United States to do the exact thing it had contracted to do that Flunk-er was injured. There was a breach of an obligation not only to Flunker but to States Line as well, and out of those breaches the duty to indemnify arose. I think it unnecessary to go further.