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BERTI v. COMPAGNIE DE NAVIGATION CYPRIEN FABRE

No. 73, Docket 22786.

213 F.2d 397 (1954)

BERTI v. COMPAGNIE DE NAVIGATION CYPRIEN FABRE (AMERICAN STEVEDORES, Inc., third-party defendant-appellee).

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Klonsky, New York City (Philip F. DiCostanzo, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Jack Steinman, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Eugene Underwood, New York City (Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, Benjamin E. Haller, and John A. Gleason, New York City, on the brief), for defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant.

George A. Garvey, New York City, for American Stevedores, Inc., third-party defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK, FRANK, and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the recurring problems of liability of a vessel owner to an injured employee of the stevedore it has hired to load or unload the vessel and of the liability of the stevedore for indemnity to the vessel owner.

Plaintiff, Thomas Berti, a longshoreman employed by third-party defendant, The American Stevedores, Inc., was injured in the course of his employment while loading a vessel owned and operated by defendant-appellant...

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