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AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, INC. v. REVEL

No. 7787.

266 F.2d 82 (1959)

AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, INC., Appellant, v. John REVEL, Appellee, WHITEHALL TERMINAL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, INC., and John Revel, Appellees, and American Export Lines, Inc., Cross-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Whitehall Terminal Corporation, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Winston and Harry E. McCoy, Norfolk, Va. (Seawell, Johnston, McCoy & Winston, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellant American Export Lines, Inc.

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., for appellee John Revel.

William E. Eley, Norfolk, Va. (Rixey & Rixey, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellant Whitehall Terminal Corp.

Herbert E. Morris, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Lester S. Parsons, Jr., U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee and cross-appellee United States.

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

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

In a civil action in the District Court, judgments were entered in favor of an injured longshoreman against the owner of a vessel; for the vessel's owner against the United States, as charterer; and for the United States against the longshoreman's employer, a stevedoring company.

The longshoreman, John Revel, was injured while standing on Pier 1, U.S. Army Base, Norfolk, Virginia, helping to load the American Export Line's S.S. Executor...

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