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LITWINOWICZ v. WEYERHAEUSER STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Civ. A. Nos. 21553, 21554.

179 F.Supp. 812 (1959)

Bernard LITWINOWICZ v. WEYERHAEUSER STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendant. Joseph MATYAS v. WEYERHAEUSER STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Milton M. Borowsky, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Krusen, Evans & Shaw, T. E. Byrne, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co.

John B. Hannum, 3rd, Philadelphia, Pa., for Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., third-party defendant.

KRAFT, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, longshoremen, instituted separate actions against Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while they were engaged in loading steel beams aboard defendant's vessel. Both complaints alleged negligence and unseaworthiness.

Weyerhaeuser, in both cases, impleaded and sought indemnity from plaintiffs' employer, Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., which had contracted to perform the stevedoring...

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