CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORP. v. NACIREMA OPERATING CO.

No. 7804.

266 F.2d 79 (1959)

CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, Appellant, v. NACIREMA OPERATING COMPANY, Inc., a body corporate, Third-Party Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. P. Whip and Robert E. Coughlan, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Lord, Whip & Coughlan, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellant.

Jesse Slingluff, Jr., and Mathias J. DeVito, Baltimore, Md., for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the District Court's judgment denying a shipowner indemnity from a stevedoring contractor for the amount recovered from the shipowner by an injured longshoreman-employee of the stevedore.

The longshoreman, Joseph Oleszczuk, was struck and injured by a cargo light which came loose from its cable when thrown into number 4 hold of the S. S. Portmar by a deckman who was also an employee of the stevedore. Oleszczuk...

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