LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
Romero Reyes, a longshoreman, was injured when he slipped and fell from an allegedly unstable, poorly lit and defective gangway while boarding the CARIBBEAN, a barge owned by defendant Caribbean Barge Corporation. He sued the barge's owner and an associated company for unseaworthiness and negligence. At the close of his evidence the court, upon defendants' motion, directed a verdict on both counts for defendants, and he appealed....
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