MACARTNEY v. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE

No. 15664.

253 F.2d 529 (1958)

Walter Herbert MACARTNEY, Appellant, v. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Conway, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, Portland, Or., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and CHAMBERS and BARNES, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by a longshoreman, a citizen of Oregon, against a foreign corporation seeking to recover for injuries allegedly sustained on October 10, 1954, aboard a vessel owned by defendant while plaintiff was engaged in unloading heavy crates of glass from said vessel, using a dolly in doing so. The action is based both upon unseaworthiness of the vessel and negligence on the part of defendant, in that it was charged the dolly was defective...

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