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BLANKENSHIP v. ELLERMAN'S WILSON LINE NEW YORK, INC.

No. 7701.

265 F.2d 455 (1959)

William Luther BLANKENSHIP, Appellant, v. ELLERMAN'S WILSON LINE NEW YORK, INC., a body corporate, Appellee. ELLERMAN'S WILSON LINE NEW YORK, INC., a body corporate, Appellant, v. ORIOLE SHIP CEILING CO., INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hyman A. Pressman, Baltimore, Md., for William Luther Blankenship.

Randall C. Coleman, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, and Southgate Morison, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Ellerman's Wilson Line New York, Inc.

Jeffrey B. Smith, Baltimore, Md. (Clark, Smith & Prendergast, Baltimore, Md., on brief) for Oriole Ship Ceiling Co., Inc.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This civil action was brought by William Luther Blankenship against Ellerman's Wilson Line New York, Inc., owner of the SS Bassano, for injuries suffered by him on February 26, 1956, in the nighttime, while engaged as a carpenter in repairing and constructing grain fittings in the No. 2 hold of the ship in the Port of Baltimore.

The complainant and nine other carpenters were employed by Oriole Ship Ceiling Co., Inc., the contractor in...

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