WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. RODRIGUEZ

Nos. 5666, 5667.

290 F.2d 175 (1961)

WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellant, v. Ramon RODRIGUEZ Colon, Plaintiff, Appellee. Ramon RODRIGUEZ Colon, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vicente M. Ydrach, San Juan, P. R., with whom Hartzell, Fernandez & Novas, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for Waterman Steamship Corp.

Harvey B. Nachman, New York, N. Y., with whom Jerome Golenbock and Stanley L. Feldstein, New York, N. Y., were on brief, for Ramon Rodriguez Colon.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and MARIS and HARTIGAN, Circuit Judges.


MARIS, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Ramon Rodriguez Colon, and against the defendant, Waterman Steamship Corporation, in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in a civil action brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, a longshoreman in the employ of a stevedoring company which was engaged in unloading cargo from defendant's vessel while lying...

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