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TITUS v. THE SANTORINI

No. 15592.

258 F.2d 352 (1958)

Glen TITUS, Appellant, v. THE SANTORINI and Sigalas and Kulukundis, its claimants, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 5, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peterson, Possi & Lent, Frank H. Possi, Gerald H. Robinson, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, Erskine B. Wood, John R. Brooke, Portland, Or., for appellees.

Before FEE, CHAMBERS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

On February 5, 1955, Titus, a longshoreman, was injured on the deck of the S. S. Santorini as it lay at the dock in Coos Bay, Oregon, taking on a load of lumber. At the moment he was acting as hatch tender. As the load came up in the slings attached to the hook, both a preventer wire and a rope guy broke. Each was fastened to the upper end of the starboard boom and to the vessel's rail to give stability to the boom. As a result the winch tender...

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