HOLM v. AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING COMPANY

No. 13856.

276 F.2d 201 (1960)

Peter HOLM, Appellant, v. AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

March 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Goldstein, New York City, Lawrence Landskroner, Cleveland, Ohio (S. Eldridge Sampliner, Cleveland, Ohio, Goldstein & Sterenfeld, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Robert B. Preston, Cleveland, Ohio (Robert G. McCreary, Jr., Arter, Hadden, Wykoff & Van Duzer, Cleveland, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Senior Judge, POPE, Circuit Judge, and KENT, District Judge.


SIMONS, Senior Circuit Judge.

The appellant was employed by the Great Lakes Steamship Company as a shipkeeper of the S. S. Ayers, which was laid up at a dock in the appellee's shipyard in Lorain, Ohio, undergoing repair. The appellant lived on the vessel. In the afternoon of March 8, 1955, he slipped from a wet gangplank, while returning to the ship with groceries, and was severely injured. He brought this action against the shipbuilding company alleging negligence...

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