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VENTRONE v. UNITED STATES

No. A. 19296.

134 F.Supp. 169 (1955)

Michael VENTRONE, Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent, Pittston Stevedoring Corporation, Respondent-Impleaded.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

September 20, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel P. Fensterstock, New York City, for libellant, Jacob Rassner, New York City, of counsel.

Leonard P. Moore, U. S. Atty. for the Eastern Dist. of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., Howard F. Fanning, New York City, of counsel, for respondent.

Purdy, Lamb & Catoggio, New York City, for respondent-impleaded, Edmund F. Lamb, New York City, of counsel.

BYERS, District Judge.

The libellant was injured on January 3, 1949 while working as a stevedore's employee on the U. S. A. T. Private John F. Thorson, then docked at Staten Island Pier 13. The cause was brought against the United States as owner of the ship, and the stevedore to be called Pittston, was impleaded in order to invoke possible liability upon its part on the theory of indemnity.

The question for decision is a narrow purely factual one, as to whether...

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