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UNITED STATES LINES, INC. v. JARKA CORP. OF BALTIMORE

No. 15020.

444 F.2d 26 (1971)

UNITED STATES LINES, INC., a body corporate, Appellant, v. JARKA CORPORATION OF BALTIMORE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Skeen, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (William A. Skeen, and Skeen, Wilson & Roach, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

William R. Dorsey, III, Baltimore, Md. (Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

United States Lines, Inc., sued its stevedore, Jarka Corporation of Baltimore, for indemnification of the amount paid in satisfaction of a judgment for personal injury damages awarded Walter Kwarta, a longshoreman employee of Jarka. Lines' claim was disallowed and on its appeal we reverse.

Kwarta was working in a hold aboard the SS American Racer, a ship owned by Lines and lying alongside a Baltimore pier. Upon returning from...

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