HILL v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.

No. 8095.

194 F.Supp. 885 (1961)

Andrew James HILL, Libellant, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., Respondent and Impleading Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Whitehall Terminal Corporation, Impleaded Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

May 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. David Lindauer, Portsmouth, Va., for libellant.

John W. Winston, Norfolk, Va., for American President Lines, Ltd.

Alan Raywid, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

William B. Eley, Norfolk, Va., for Whitehall.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

As a consequence of serious and permanent injuries sustained by the libellant, Andrew James Hill, a longshoreman employed by Whitehall Terminal Corporation, this action was instituted against American President Lines, Ltd., the owner and operator of the SS Lone Star Mariner, alleging negligence and unseaworthiness.

On November 5, 1958, libellant was a member of a stevedoring gang employed in loading a quantity of pipe in...

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