GREEN v. POPE & TALBOTT, INC.

Nos. 4809, 4997, Civ. Nos. 18189, 18220 and 19814.

328 F.Supp. 71 (1971)

Paisley GREEN, to his own use and to the use of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. POPE & TALBOTT, INC., a body corporate. William RANDOLPH v. CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORP., a body corporate, and Lawrence E. Wilson CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORP., a body corporate v. TERMINAL SHIPPING COMPANY and Maryland Port Authority. Bert ROBINSON v. GRACE LINE, INC. Oscar EADDY v. EMDER DAMPFERCOMPAGNIE A. G. AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT v. ROBERT C. HERD & CO., Inc. James R. MILES v. SS PRODROMOS, her boilers, engine, tackle, etc., Sampasa Compania, the Western Maryland Railway Company, a Maryland corporation, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

April 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Freeman, Baltimore, Md., for libelant Paisley Green.

Raymond J. Cardillo and Howard Fine, Baltimore, Md., for libelant William Randolph.

H. Carl Butler, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff Bert Robinson.

Jerome B. Monfred and Monfred & Lentz, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff Oscar Eaddy.

David K. Ebersole, Jr., Leroy W. Preston, O'Connor & Preston, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff James R. Miles; John J. O'Connor, Baltimore, Md., of counsel. Eugene A. Edgett, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for respondent, Pope & Talbott, Inc.

Randall C. Coleman, Thomas W. Jamison, III, and Ober Williams & Grimes, Baltimore, Md., for respondent Central Gulf Steamship Co. and another.

Southgate L. Morison, Randall C. Coleman, and John R. Crumpler, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for defendant Grace Line, Inc.

Southgate L. Morison, Richard R. Jackson, Jr., and Ober, Williams & Grimes, Baltimore, Md., for defendant and third-party plaintiff Emder Dampfercompagnie A. G. Aktiengesellschaft.

Richard R. Jackson, Jr., and Ober, Williams & Grimes, Baltimore, Md., for defendant Sampasa Compania.

Joseph H. Young and Paul V. Niemeyer, Baltimore, Md., for defendant The Western Maryland Railway Co.

Eugene A. Edgett, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for defendant Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Louis G. Close, Jr., and Due, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, Baltimore, Md., for first-respondent impleaded Terminal Shipping Co.

Herbert F. Murray, Baltimore, Md., for second-respondent impleaded Md. Port Authority.

Eugene A. Edgett, Jr. and A. Douglas Owens, Baltimore, Md., for third-party defendant Robert C. Herd & Co., Inc.


WATKINS, District Judge.

These five, factually uncomplicated, cases bring us into some of the most troubled waters in admiralty today. Two of the five cases, Green and Randolph, were commenced as libels in admiralty; the other three, were instituted as civil actions at law. In each of the five cases, the party instituting the action was an employee of a stevedoring company who was injured on a pier or in a pier-based structure in the performance of his...

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