CASWELL v. KONINKLYKE NEDERLANDSCHE STOOMBOOT M.

Civ. A. No. 13723.

205 F.Supp. 295 (1962)

Clarence J. CASWELL, Plaintiff, v. KONINKLYKE NEDERLANDSCHE STOOMBOOT MAALSCHAPPY, N. V., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

June 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Jiles Roberts, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, Tex., for defendant and third-party plaintiff.

Robert Eikel and Theodore Goller, Jr., Houston, Tex., for third-party defendant.


INGRAHAM, District Judge.

Plaintiff longshoreman sued defendant shipowner for $75,000 damages for personal injury, alleging unseaworthiness of the vessel and negligence of the vessel's personnel. Defendant denied these allegations and claimed the injury resulted from a breach of warranty of workmanlike service by the stevedore, Strachan Shipping Company. On September 15, 1961, defendant shipowner, by its attorneys of record, wrote the stevedore tendering the defense...

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