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KLOSTER v. S.S. CHATHAM

No. 72-1839.

475 F.2d 43 (1973)

John A. KLOSTER, Appellant, v. S. S. CHATHAM and Waterman Steamship Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. O'Connor, Jr., Baltimore, Md. ( O'Connor & Preston, P. A., Baltimore, Md., on brief ), for appellant.

Randall C. Coleman, Baltimore, Md. (Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, BUTZNER, Circuit Judge, and BRYAN, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

John Kloster, a longshoreman, brought this action for injuries he received while loading pipe from a gondola car into the S.S. CHATHAM. Kloster alleged unseaworthiness and negligence of the ship's crew in permitting mooring lines to become slack. The slack, he claims, allowed the CHATHAM to be washed against the pier by the wake of a passing vessel. This movement, he says, caused the ship's hoisting line to dislodge a section of pipe which struck him....

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