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UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY v. KING

No. 10181.

363 F.2d 658 (1966)

UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY, Appellant, v. Rufus KING and Southern Stevedoring Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Winston, Norfolk, Va. (Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

C. Arthur Rutter, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Amato, Babalas, Breit, Cohen, Rutter & Friedman, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee Rufus King.

L. S. Parsons, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Parsons & Powers, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee Southern Stevedoring Corp.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Longshoreman Rufus King was injured while working aboard the S.S. American Flyer, then taking on cargo at Norfolk, Virginia. He sued the vessel's owner, United States Lines Company, for damages, laying his misfortune to the shipowner's negligence and the ship's unseaworthiness. Besides denying fault entirely, the shipowner filed a third-party complaint against King's employer, Southern Stevedoring...

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