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BLIER v. UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY

No. 187, Docket 26357.

286 F.2d 920 (1961)

Benjamin BLIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 17, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Heller, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

William R. Mackey, New York City (Louis J. Gusmano, and Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before MEDINA, FRIENDLY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

Benjamin Blier was employed as a seaman purser on the vessel SS American Leader, owned by defendant United States Lines Company, and he was injured on May 31, 1957 as he was boarding the vessel on his return from shore leave. The American Leader, having arrived from a foreign port, was at anchor in the Port of New York, at the Stapleton anchorage. Blier's version of the accident was that the third section of a three-piece gangway, rigged into...

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