BLAKE v. FARRELL LINES, INC.

Nos. 17725-17728.

417 F.2d 264 (1969)

William BLAKE v. FARRELL LINES, INC., Appellant. FARRELL LINES INCORPORATED, Appellant, v. LAVINO SHIPPING COMPANY. William JIGGIETS v. PRUDENTIAL LINES, INC., Appellant. PRUDENTIAL LINES, INC., Appellant, v. LAVINO SHIPPING COMPANY and PHILADELPHIA SHIP SUPPLY & LUMBER CO., Additional Respondent, v. GEORGE J. HAENN, INC., Impleaded Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1969.

As Amended January 23, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, Philadelphia, Pa. (S. Gordon Elkins, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

George D. Sheenan, Philadelphia, Pa. (Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee Lavino Shipping Co.

Roger B. Woods, Philadelphia, Pa. (Joseph R. Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee George J. Haenn, Inc.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Chief Judge.

Each of these appeals challenges an order which requires a consolidated jury trial of a longshoreman's diversity suit for damages against the owners of a ship, upon which he allegedly was negligently injured, with the shipowner's consequent separate suit in admiralty for indemnity against the longshoreman's employer, a stevedoring company with which the shipowner had contracted...

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