Clara Swinton Bonds, as Administratrix of the Estate of Franklin Hassie Bonds v. Mortensen and Lange and the M/v \Fetish\ and Rederiet Mascot K/s

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• testifying that he took only “a couple steps, and the next thing [he] knew, [he] had slipped and f[allen] right then, boom”
• explaining “we do not take the presence of an officer of the ship’s crew to constitute ‘active involvement’ in discharge operations”
• no duty to intervene regarding obvious hazard in part because “longshoremen proceeded to unload the ship’s cargo without complaint or incident”
• no duty to intervene where malfunction of bell was obvious and known to all, and “the longshoremen proceeded to unload the ship’s cargo without complaint or incident until the time of the accident”
• no duty to intervene where malfunction of bell was obvious and known to all, and \the longshoremen proceeded to unload the ship's cargo without complaint or incident until the time of the accident\

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