First Missouri Bank & Trust Co. v. Bayly, Martin & Fay Aviation Insurance Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “knowledge is not only what the shipowner knows but what he is charged with discovering in order to apprise himself of conditions likely to produce or contribute to a loss”
• merging together in the opinion the district court’s separate findings regarding negligence and unseaworthiness
• “[P]rivity and knowledge is established where the means of obtaining knowledge exist, or where reasonable inspection would have led to the requisite knowledge”
• the owner of the ship is bound only by its “managing agent, officer, supervising employee, including supervisory shoreside personnel”
• unwritten company policy to defer to pilot led, among other causes, to unseaworthy condition causing accident
• “Fault in the abstract is not sufficient. To produce liability, the • acts of negligence ... must be a contributory and proximate cause of the accident.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).