Smith & Kelly Company v. The S/s Concordia Tadj, Her Engines, Boilers, Tackle, Etc., A/s Idaho and Christian Haaland, D/B/A Concordia Line

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Ryan indemnity was limited to long-shore worker cases, and applying comparative fault to liability for injured crew members
• authorizing action for contribution by stevedore which had settled with injured seaman
• authorizing action for contribution by stevedore which had settled with injured seaman
• declining to extend Ryan indemnity to controversies involving seamen injured at sea
• noting the “clear trend in maritime cases . . . to reject all-or-nothing or other arbitrary allotments of liability in favor of a system that divides damages on the basis of the relative degree of fault of the parties”
• applying comparative fault principles in a maritime case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).