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GREEN v. SKIBS A/S MANDEVILLE

No. 8319.

292 F.2d 393 (1961)

Dock GREEN, Libelant, Appellant, v. SKIBS A/S MANDEVILLE and A. S. Klaveness & Company, A/S Managers and THE S/S KINGSVILLE, Respondents, and Palmetto Stevedoring Co., Inc., Respondent-Impleaded, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Klonsky, Brooklyn, N. Y., and I. H. Jacobson, Charleston, S. C. (Jacobson, Rosenblum & Spar, Charleston, S. C., and Di Costanzo, Klonsky & Sergi, Brooklyn, N. Y., on brief), for appellant.

D. A. Brockinton, Jr., Charleston, S. C. (Waring & Brockinton, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellees Skibs A/S Mandeville and A. S. Klaveness & Company, et al.

Harold A. Mouzon, Charleston, S. C. (Moore & Mouzon, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellee Palmetto Stevedoring Company, Inc.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The libelant, a longshoreman, injured his knee when he fell or was knocked from the masthouse of the ship to her main deck. He sought damages from the ship, which impleaded the stevedore-employer of the libelant. The District Court's decree exonerated the ship, and the libelant has appealed.

The injury was sustained as the libelant and other longshoremen were undertaking to place one of the ship's cargo booms in position preparatory...

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