RIFKIND, District Judge.
The action is by a longshoreman, an employee of a stevedoring company, against the owner of the S. S. Stangarth for injuries he sustained while employed aboard the vessel.
The facts are as follows: The Stangarth was a new vessel built in England in 1942. On February 22, 1942, she was berthed at a Brooklyn pier and being readied for her maiden voyage. On that day the owner's agents asked the longshoreman working upon the vessel to rig...
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