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DOCHERTY v. ROBINS DRY DOCK & REPAIR CO.

No. 258.

32 F.2d 545 (1929)

DOCHERTY v. ROBINS DRY DOCK & REPAIR CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 6, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas B. Axtell, of New York City (Charles A. Ellis, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Robert H. Woody, of New York City (J. Arthur Hilton and Alfred T. Tompkins, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was employed as chief officer on board the steamship William Boyce Thompson while she lay in navigable waters alongside a dock in Erie Basin, that the defendant was engaged in the performance of a maritime contract to repair "divers and various parts" of said vessel, and that while the vessel was being repaired, and while plaintiff was using at defendant's invitation a ladder which led from the navigating...

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