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CASBON v. STOCKARD STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

No. 3544.

173 F.Supp. 845 (1959)

Marcus CASBON, Libellant, v. STOCKARD STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

April 29, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dodd, Hirsch, Barker & Meunier, Harold Lamy, New Orleans, La., for libellant.

Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Martinez & Yancey Edward Bagley, New Orleans, La., for respondent.

Jones, Walker, Waschter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Pat F. Bass, New Orleans, La., for New Orleans Stevedoring Co., Inc., respondent-impleaded.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Alleging unseaworthiness, Casbon, an employee of a stevedoring contractor, seeks recovery from respondent shipowner for injuries sustained by him when a scaffold, from which he was building a fire wall in the lower hold of the S.S. Oberlin Victory, collapsed. Respondent shipowner first strongly argues that it is Casbon's statutory employer under § 4 of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act1...

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