Standard Dredging Co. v. Kristiansen

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• applying the flotilla doctrine in a case 27 involving personal injuries sustained by an employee upon his employer’s vessel
• (citing Brown & Root Marine Operators, Inc. v. Zapata Off-Shore Co., 377 F.2d 724, 727 (5th Cir.1967) and In re Drill Barge No. 2, 454 F.2d 408
• applying flotilla rule to the case of a seaman injured while working on a barge and a dredge engaged in a common venture, because his employment relationship with the vessel owner formed the necessary “contractual obligations”
• “when the duty violated, though imposed by law, presupposes at least the relation of master and servant, the owner must surrender all those vessels which share in the execution of the venture.”

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