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STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANY v. ALEXANDER

No. 19571.

311 F.2d 385 (1962)

STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Joseph ALEXANDER and Meiji Kaiun, K.K., Appellees. MEIJI KAIUN, K.K., Appellant, v. Joseph ALEXANDER and Strachan Shipping Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. H. McClendon, Jr., Stuart McClendon, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

John P. Nelson, Jr., August J. Bubert, Leonard S. Ungar, New Orleans, La., for Joseph Alexander.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, Leon Sarpy and James G. Burke, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Meiji Kaiun, K.K.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BELL, Circuit Judges.

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

The libelant-appellee Joseph Alexander, a longshoreman, was employed by the third party-respondent, the appellant Strachan Shipping Company, a stevedoring contractor. Alexander and other employees of Strachan were loading cotton in the hold of a ship owned by respondent-appellant, Meiji Kaiun, K.K., when the injury here complained of occurred. The court below, sitting without a jury, entered judgment in favor of the longshoreman against the...

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