Supreme Court of the United States, 1929

Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided April 8, 1929 · Per Curiam

279 U.S. 819; 49 S. Ct. 341; 73 L. Ed. 975; 1929 U.S. LEXIS 85 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Myron Scott, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Silas B. Axtell and Charles A. Ellis were on the brief, for petitioner., Mr. J. Frank Staley, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General Famum, and Mr. Chauncey G. Parker, General Counsel, Emergency Fleet Corporation, were on .the brief, for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

42 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Lebowitz v. Forbes Leasing and Finance Corporation (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1971)
Polar Shipping Limited v. Oriental Shipping Corporation (9th Cir. 1982)
Polar Shipping Ltd. v. Oriental Shipping Corp. (9th Cir. 1982)
G.A.C. Trans-World Acceptance Corp. v. Jaynes Enterprises, Inc. (Ark. 1973)
Marvin Lebowitz v. Forbes Leasing and Finance Corporation (A Foreign Corporation) (3d Cir. 1972)
State Ex Rel. Payne v. Walden (W. Va. 1972)
Randone v. Appellate Department (Cal. 1971)
Tucker v. Burton (District Court, District of Columbia 1970)
Laprease v. Raymours Furniture Company (District Court, N.D. New York 1970)
Lemon v. Mississippi Transp. Com'n (Miss. 1999)
Fred L. Lemon v. Mississippi Transportation Commission (Miss. 1997)
Pinsky v. Duncan (2d Cir. 1990)
Reardon v. United States (District Court, D. Massachusetts 1990)
Pinsky v. Duncan (2d Cir. 1990)
City of Gary v. Redmond (Ind. Ct. App. 1986)
Frost v. City and County of Honolulu (United States District Court for the District of Hawaii 1984)
Briere v. Agway, Inc. (District Court, D. Vermont 1977)
Stoller Fisheries, Inc. v. American Title Insurance Co. (Iowa 1977)
Aaron Ferer & Sons Co. v. Berman (United States District Court, Nebraska 1977)
Unique Caterers, Inc. v. Rudy's Farm Co. (Fla. 1976)
Northeast Investment Co. v. Leisure Living Communities, Inc. (Me. 1976)
G. H. McShane Co. v. McFadden (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1976)
In re the Oronoka (District Court, D. Maine 1975)
Hutchison v. Bank of North Carolina (District Court, M.D. North Carolina 1975)
Perkins v. McGonagle (Me. 1975)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion

Per Curiam:

This cause is restored to the docket for reargument and is set down for hearing with No. 676, United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation v. Lustgarten, the two cases to be argued as one. The Qourt especially invites argument on the following questions:

1., Is the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation, as an agency of the United States, immune, from suit for the tortious acts of persons whom it has employed to carry on the . operation of merchant vessels of the United States, and who have been selected by it with due care?

2. Are the remedies given against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation by the suits in admiralty act of March 9, 1920, exclusive of all other remedies, whether at-law or in admiralty, for liabilities of the Fleet Corporation growing out of the operation of merchant vessels of the United States?

3. Is the two-year period of limitation prescribed in the suits in admiralty act applicable to the present suit?

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