Morgan v. Alabama

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• dredge worker whose primary function consisted of handling and maintaining earth conveying pipelines held as a matter of law to be a “crew member” entitled to Jones Act recovery
• “Since a man does not become a seaman by papers alone, he should not be denied his statutory status as a seaman merely because he is not a paper seaman.”
• mud pumper on drilling tender

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).