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DELGADO v. THE MALULA

No. 18470.

291 F.2d 420 (1961)

Bernardino Figueroa DELGADO, Appellant, v. THE Steamship MALULA, her engines, boilers, etc., and Oscar G. Abello Ameller, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 16, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey B. Nachman, San Juan, P. R., Golenbock, Nachman & Feldstein, San Juan, P. R., for appellant.

Earl D. Waldin, Jr., Miami, Fla., Smathers, Thompson & Dyer, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

While the result is to the contrary, this case presents much the same problem dealt with at length in Vega v. Steamship Malula, 5 Cir., 1961, 291 F.2d 415. As a consequence this opinion may be severely compressed.

The libellant was a longshoreman injured while on the dock in the Port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, on January 20, 1955. The libel, however, was not filed until May 5, 1959. As an employee...

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