PIGNATARO v. WATERMAN S. S. CORP.

No. 109, Docket 22176.

194 F.2d 404 (1952)

PIGNATARO v. WATERMAN S. S. CORP. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip F. DiCostanzo, Brooklyn, N. Y., for libellant-appellant; Jacob Rassner, advocate, and Robert Klonsky, New York City, on the brief.

Gay & Behrens, New York City, for respondent-appellee; Edward J. Behrens, New York City, advocate.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and BRENNAN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

On the night of December 18, 1947, Joseph Pignataro, a longshoreman employed by the Ryan Stevedoring Company, Inc., hereinafter termed Ryan, was working on the main deck of the S.S. Albert K. Smiley, owned by the Waterman Steamship Corporation, hereinafter called Waterman. Pignataro was standing on a hatchboard cover over the No. 1 hatch opening guiding a cable that was being brought up from the 'tween deck. While thus engaged he fell to the floor of the...

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