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BURKHOLDER v. UNITED STATES

No. 71.

56 F.Supp. 106 (1944)

BURKHOLDER v. UNITED STATES et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 9, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorfman & Levitan, of Philadelphia, Pa., for libellant.

Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., J. Barton Rettew, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., and Rawle & Henderson, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for the United States and War Shipping Administration.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The libellant, a member of the crew of the S. S. William C. Atwater, was injured, while the ship was docked at Havana, by the breaking of a ladder which he was descending to the dock. He filed a libel in personam against the United States, the War Shipping Administration (the charterer of the vessel), and the Fall River Navigation Company (the owner), charging negligence in failing to provide a safe place to work, failing to provide competent...

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