Wheelings Ex Rel. Estate of Seals v. Seatrade Groningen, BV

How courts have described this case

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

• “State law may supplement maritime law when maritime law is silent or where a local matter is at issue, but state law may not be applied where it would conflict with federal maritime law.”
• “It is well-established under American tort law that an agent is liable for its own negligence; and the rights of a principal and agent relative to each other are not the measure of the rights of third persons against either of them for tortious conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).