COSCIA v. WILLARD

No. 318, Docket 24947.

257 F.2d 105 (1958)

Vincenzo COSCIA, Petitioner-Appellee, v. John A. WILLARD, as Deputy Commissioner of the United States Department of Labor Bureau, of Employees' Compensation, Second Compensation District, and Universal Terminal and Stevedoring Corporation and The Travelers Insurance Company, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip F. Di Costanzo, Brooklyn, N. Y., Robert Klonsky, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel, for petitioner-appellee.

Robert S. Green, Department of Justice, Washington D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr., U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., Samuel D. Slade, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent-appellant John A. Willard.

Galli & Locker, New York City, Urban S. Mulvehill, New York City, of counsel, New York, New York, for respondents-appellants Universal Terminal and Stevedoring Corporation and Travelers Insurance Company.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and HINCKS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


STEWART, Circuit Judge.

On September 18, 1953, Vincenzo Coscia was employed by Universal Terminal and Stevedoring Corporation as a winchman on board the steamship "African Crescent," which was then moored at Brooklyn, New York, discharging cargo. Alleging that he had sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment on that day, Coscia filed a claim under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation...

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