HANEY, Circuit Judge.
In an action for personal injuries sustained by appellant as the result of a fall through an open hatch of a vessel owned by appellee, the trial court directed a verdict for appellee and entered judgment accordingly. Appellant was a longshoreman in the employ of a stevedoring company, a corporation which had entered into a contract with appellee for the loading of cargo on the vessel.
Appellant was working in the lower 'tween-decks when...
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