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FURNESS, WITHY & CO. v. CARTER

No. 16623.

281 F.2d 264 (1960)

FURNESS, WITHY & CO., Ltd., owner and operator of the Steamship THE PACIFIC STRONGHOLD, her boiler, engine, etc., Appellant, v. William CARTER, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 11, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. LeGros, Summers, Bucey & Howard, Seattle, Wash., for appellants.

Kane & Spellman, John D. Spellman, Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before BONE, BARNES and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.

BONE, Circuit Judge.

The S. S. Pacific Stronghold and her owner, Furness, Withy & Co. were libeled by appellee Carter as a result of injuries which he suffered while working aboard the ship as an employee of an independent stevedoring outfit. The accident occurred while Carter was operating a device known as a MacGregor Patent Steel Hatch Cover, five, half-ton sections of insulated steel plate, which in the instant case was used to cover the No. 4 hatch of the...

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