SLOAN v. THE S. S. ALCOA PENNANT

No. 2576.

168 F.Supp. 571 (1958)

Albert SLOAN, Libelant, v. THE S. S. ALCOA PENNANT, her engines, boilers, etc., and Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., a corporation, Respondents and Petitioner, Cooper Stevedoring Company, Inc., a corporation, Impleaded Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

December 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Golenbock, New York City, Ross Diamond, Jr., of Diamond, Engel & Lattof, Mobile, Ala., for libelant.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, John H. Tappan, of Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts, Mobile, Ala., for respondent.

Francis H. Inge, of Inge & Twitty, Mobile, Ala., for impleaded respondent.


DANIEL HOLCOMBE THOMAS, District Judge.

This is an action in admiralty by an employee of a stevedoring contractor to recover damages from a shipowner for injuries resulting from the alleged defective, unsafe and unseaworthy condition of the vessel and the dangerous condition of the deck of the vessel, in which action the shipowner has filed a petition of impleader against the stevedoring contractor.

Libelant was aboard the S. S. Alcoa Pennant as an...

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