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CAPOTORTO v. COMPANIA SUD AMERICANA de VAPORES, ETC.

No. 1113, Docket 76-7123.

541 F.2d 985 (1976)

Giuseppe CAPOTORTO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMPANIA SUD AMERICANA de VAPORES, CHILEAN LINE, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester E. Fetell (Sergi & Fetell, Brooklyn, N. Y.), for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas Coyne, New York City (Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, Louis J. Gusmano, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before SMITH, MANSFIELD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Giuseppe Capotorto, a longshoreman, appeals the dismissal by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, John R. Bartels, Judge, of his action for a judgment declaring invalid his purported release of Compania Sud Americana de Vapores, Chilean Line, Inc. (the defendant) from all claims arising out of an accident which injured him while working aboard defendant's vessel. We affirm.

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