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SULLIVAN v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.

No. 28209.

206 F.Supp. 547 (1961)

Francis SULLIVAN, Libelant, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., a corporation, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

November 22, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lillick, Geary, Wheat, Adams & Charles, Mark Scott Hamilton, San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.

Malcolm N. McCarthy, San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

HARRIS, Chief Judge.

This is a longshoreman's suit for personal injury against a steamship and terminal operator. On the day of his accident (February 29, 1960) Sullivan — the longshoreman — was employed by President Lines to perform ordinary laboring tasks as a member of its so-called "maintenance gang." The only work assigned Sullivan by his foreman on that day was the repairing of a life boat which was on dry land (up on chocks ashore at Pier 50,...

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