REDERI A/B DALEN v. MAHER

No. 8518.

303 F.2d 565 (1962)

REDERI A/B DALEN, Respondent, Appellant, v. Walter C. MAHER, Impleaded Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Tucker, Norfolk, Va. (Hugh S. Meredith, and Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Allan S. Reynolds, Norfolk, Va. (White, Ryan & Reynolds, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

A shipowner is here seeking indemnity from a stevedore for counsel fees incurred in defense of an action brought by the widow of a longshoreman killed in the loading of a cargo of coal.

On August 6, 1957, Jasper Deans, an employee of stevedore Walter C. Maher, went aboard the S.S. BELLINA to assist in trimming a cargo of granular coal then being loaded into her lower hold. An initial load of...

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