SNYDOR v. VILLAIN & FASSIO et COMPANIA INT. DI GENOVA, ETC.

Nos. 71-1208, 71-1473, 71-1477, 71-1478, 71-1496, 71-1497, 71-1678.

459 F.2d 365 (1972)

Hempsal SNYDOR, Jr., Appellant, v. VILLAIN & FASSIO et COMPANIA INTERNAZIONALE DI GENOVA SOCIETA REUNITE DI NAVIAGAIONE, S.P.A., Appellee. William RANDOLPH, Appellant, v. CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORP. et al., Appellees. Bert ROBINSON, Appellant, v. GRACE LINE, INC., Appellee. Paisley GREEN, to his own use and to the use of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. POPE AND TALBOTT, INC., a body corporate, Appellee. James R. MILES, Appellant, v. S.S. PRODROMOS et al., Appellees. Oscar EADDY, Appellant, v. EMDER DAMPFERCOMPAGNIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT et al., Appellees. James MISLAK, Appellant, v. PLOUVIER MARITIME, N.V., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond J. Cardillo, Baltimore, Md., for appellant in No. 71-1473.

H. Carl Butler, Baltimore, Md., for appellant in No. 71-1477.

Franklin I. Freeman and William B. Ewers, Baltimore, Md., for appellant in No. 71-1478.

John J. O'Connor, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for appellant in No. 71-1496.

Joseph F. Lentz, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for appellant in Nos. 71-1497, 71-1208 and 71-1678.

Louis G. Close, Jr., Randall C. Coleman, Eugene A. Edgett, Jr., Phillips L. Goldsborough, 3rd, Baltimore, Md., A. Owen Hennegan, Towson, Md., Richard R. Jackson, Jr., Paul V. Niemeyer and Jesse Slingluff, Baltimore, Md., for appellees in Nos. 71-1208, 71-1473, 71-1477, 71-1478, 71-1496 and 71-1497.

David R. Owen, Baltimore, Md., for appellee in No. 71-1678.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge, and FIELD, Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Each of these seven cases involves a longshoreman employee of a stevedoring company who was injured on a pier or in a pier-based structure in the performance of his work. In each case the longshoreman instituted an action against the shipowner with the usual allegations of negligence and unseaworthiness of the vessel. Some of the cases were brought in admiralty, while others were instituted as actions at law. The district court took the position that the...

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