IMANUEL v. LYKES BROS. S.S. CO. INC.

No. 353, Docket 76-7293.

566 F.2d 368 (1977)

Leonard IMANUEL, Plaintiff, v. LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO. INC., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TODD SHIPYARDS CORPORATION, Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur M. Boal, New York City (Joseph E. Doti and Boal, Doti & Larsen, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Thomas H. Healey, New York City (Healey, Stonebridge & McCaffrey, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MOORE, OAKES and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This entirely factual appeal is by a shipowner from a judgment denying a claim for indemnity against a ship repair yard, following a $325,000 settlement paid by the shipowner to a seaman who had sued under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688. The seaman, Leonard Imanuel, was injured when cables on an "engineer's platform hoist" broke. The "hoist" was in lay terms a small freight elevator or lift running...

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