VACCARO v. ALCOA STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 12, Docket 31692.

405 F.2d 1133 (1968)

Dominick VACCARO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ALCOA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, AMERICAN STEVEDORES, INC., and Anderson-Linton Lumber Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Sherwood, Joseph Kelner, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

J. Ward O'Neill, John J. Quigley, Jr., Stephen S. Gerard, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for defendant and third-party plaintiff-appellant.

John F. X. McKiernan, Daniel J. Coughlin, New York City, for third-party defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge and WATERMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

In this action plaintiff, alleging that the shipowner was negligent and that its vessel was unseaworthy, seeks to recover damages for an elbow injury the plaintiff sustained while working aboard the Alcoa Puritan owned by the defendant. Plaintiff is a marine carpenter foreman employed by American Stevedores, Inc. which had a contract to load cargo and to do carpentry work aboard the Alcoa Puritan while berthed at the Brooklyn...

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