Freidus v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that maritime law applied to a longshoreman's claim that he was injured on a ramp to a ship while attempting to load a vehicle from the dock, even though the ramp was provided by his employer, a stevedoring company
• concluding there was maritime jurisdiction where two longshoremen were injured on ship ramp while loading car
• locus test applies to injury on ramp of ship, although concept of “locus” expanded
• “The vehicles involved—an automobile and a jitney—are not inherently indigenous to maritime commerce, but viewed as instrumentalities to a vessel loading operation, are no less common to marine commerce than to land operations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).