HRONCICH v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.

No. 14622.

334 F.2d 282 (1964)

Martino HRONCICH, Libellant-Appellant, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., Respondent-Appellee, and Seaboard Contracting Co., Inc.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel L. Marciano, Hoboken, N. J. (Florio, Dunn, Marciano & Lypinski, Hoboken, N. J., Lawrence E. Florio, Hoboken, N. J., of counsel, on the brief), for appellant.

James L. R. Lafferty, Newark, N. J. (Steelman, Lafferty, Rowe & McMahon, Newark, N. J., on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, GANEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


GANEY, Circuit Judge.

Prior to its arrival at the port of Hoboken, New Jersey, the lower No. 1 tween deck of the S. S. President Tyler had been filled to the top in tiers of crude rubber bales, roughly in the shape of cubes. Most of the bales were approximately eighteen inches high and weighed between 210 and 250 pounds. At the deepest level, they were stacked approximately twenty to twenty-five tiers deep. There was no solid material separating the bales from one...

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