Trueba v. Flota Bananera Ecuadorian Lines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding, in a limitation action, that the plaintiff longshoreman’s “own negligent failure” to keep a ship passageway clear of obstruction prevented a finding that the vessel owner was the proximate cause of the accident
• “plaintiff bears the burden of establishing four elements: duty, breach, causation, and damage” under § 905(b) of the LHWCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).