WEINFELD, District Judge.
Libelant seeks recovery for injuries sustained when he fell on the deck of respondent's vessel, the S.S. Carnifex Ferry, as he was attempting to board it from a lighter.
The libelant was a longshoreman employed by the John W. McGrath Corporation, a contracting stevedore, which had been engaged to lade the Carnifex Ferry. When the accident occurred he was returning to the "Ferry" after having aided in the transfer of stores from the...
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