Tinsley v. Newjersey

How courts have described this case

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• observing that a seaman is charged with the duty to act with the care and skill required of a “reasonably prudent seaman, not that of a reasonably prudent person” (emphasis in original)
• observing that a seaman is charged with 11 the duty to act with the care and skill required of a “reasonably prudent 12 seaman, not that of a reasonably prudent person” (emphasis in original)
• “[A]lthough the doctrine of unseaworthiness entails liability without fault, there must still be a defect in the vessel.” (quotations and citation omitted)
• Plaintiff must show “by a preponderance of the evidence that the ship, its equipment or crew, was unseaworthy”
• “In admiralty, ship owners are strictly liable for injury resulting from the unseaworthiness of their vessel and the vessel’s appurtenances.”
• “In admiralty, ship owners are strictly liable for injury resulting from the unseaworthiness of their vessel and the vessel’s appurtenances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).