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VENABLE v. A/S DET FORENEDE DAMPSKIBSSELSKAB

No. 11799.

399 F.2d 347 (1968)

James E. VENABLE, Appellant, v. A/S DET FORENEDE DAMPSKIBSSELSKAB, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1968.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va. (Kelsey & Rabinowitz, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Bernard G. Barrow, Norfolk, Va. (Walter B. Martin, Jr., and Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, BRYAN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1968 en banc.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

From an adverse judgment on his claim for injuries sustained in a fall while stowing hogsheads of tobacco on one of defendant-appellee's vessels, the plaintiff, James Venable, a longshoreman, brings this appeal. His challenge is to the validity of the judge's instructions concerning the admiralty issues raised at trial.

Briefly stated, the testimony indicates that while working on...

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