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READ v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 10668, 10671.

201 F.2d 758 (1953)

READ v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION v. WILLIAMS et al. Appeal of VASSILOPOULUS et al.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Byrne, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., Joseph J. Murphy and Krusen, Evans & Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for United States.

Milton M. Borowsky, Philadelphia, Pa. (Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Read.

Howard R. Detweiler, Philadelphia, Pa. (Frank R. Ambler, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Columbia Casualty Co., intervenor.

J. Webster Jones, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants John Nicholas Vassilopoulus et al., on the brief.

Before MARIS, KALODNER and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

Libellant brought an action in admiralty against the United States, owner of the vessel SS Langdon Cheves, for personal injuries sustained in the course of his employment on board the ship while he was an employee of a subcontractor. He alleged that the shipowner was negligent and that the vessel was unseaworthy.

The United States, under Admiralty Rule 56, 28 U.S.C., joined the Pioneer Engineering Company ("Pioneer") with whom it had...

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