LA CAPRIA v. COMPAGNIE MARITIME BELGE

No. 62 Civ. 2874.

286 F.Supp. 980 (1968)

Giacomo LA CAPRIA, as Administrator of the Estate of Santo La Capria, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. COMPAGNIE MARITIME BELGE and William Spencer & Son Corp., Defendants. WILLIAM SPENCER & SON CORPORATION, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. TRANSOCEANIC STEVEDORING CORP., Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Miller, New York City, for plaintiff.

Hill, Betts, Yamaoka, Freehill & Longcope, by Thomas H. Healey, New York City, for defendant, Compagnie Maritime Belge.

Perrell, Nielsen & Stephens, by John Fuhrman, New York City, for William Spencer & Son Corp.

McLaughlin, Fiscella & Biancheri, by John J. Biancheri, New York City, for third-party defendant.


OPINION

EDELSTEIN, District Judge.

This action arose out of an accident suffered by plaintiff's intestate, Santo La Capria, a longshoreman, on March 1, 1961, in the number two lower hold of the S.S. STEENSTRAETE. Defendant Compagnie Maritime Belge was the owner of the S.S. STEENSTRAETE. Defendant William Spencer & Son Corporation was the chenango or freight forwarder working a lighter which was moored at the same pier as the S.S. STEENSTRAETE. Third...

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