FODERA v. BOOTH AMERICAN SHIPPING CORPORATION


66 F.Supp. 319 (1946)

FODERA v. BOOTH AMERICAN SHIPPING CORPORATION et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

May 27, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Spevack, of Brooklyn, N. Y. for libellant.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, for respondent Booth American Shipping Corporation.

Daniel Miner, of New York City, for respondent Atlantic Basin Iron Works.


RIFKIND, District Judge.

This is a suit in the admiralty to recover damages sustained by libellant, a longshoreman in the employ of a stevedoring corporation, while engaged in stowing cargo on the S. S. Empire Lancer. Recovery is sought against Booth, the owner of the vessel, and against Atlantic, an independent contractor, which had reinstalled, at the instance of Booth, a thermometer pipe aboard the vessel. The findings...

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