Stephen Edynak v. Atlantic Shipping Inc. Cie. Chambon MacLovia S. A. v. Allied Chemical Company, Atlantic Shipping, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The trial judge is in the best position to evaluate the evidence and assess whether the jury’s verdict is rationally based.”
• shipowner can be liable for negligence if it “amounts to more than an isolated act and creates a condition of the vessel”
• negligent lowering of crane bucket on five to six other occasions in past two days could be improper method and rose to level of condition
• “an act occurs instantaneously, whereas there must be some period of time during which a condition exists,” and “a condition necessarily consists of more than one act”
• “[A]dmiralty law has traditionally been concerned with the loading and unloading of vessels.”
• unseaworthy condition where expert testified that unloading method was improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).