EDELSTEIN, District Judge.
The defendant has moved for judgment notwithstanding a verdict for the plaintiff, in a suit by a longshoreman for personal injuries sustained while working aboard defendant's vessel. Plaintiff was an employee of an independently contracted stevedore, engaged to load cargo into the holds of the Chilean Line steamship. The loading operation had commenced at 8:00 a. m. of August 18, 1949, the day of the accident, and the first gang continued...
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