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POLLER v. THORDEN LINES A/B

Civ. A. No. 38979.

336 F.Supp. 1231 (1970)

Timothy POLLER v. THORDEN LINES A/B and Gustaf B. Thorden v. JARKA CORPORATION OF PHILADELPHIA.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold Levin, Freedman, Borowsky & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Thomas Lane Anderson, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

Frank C. Bender, Kelly, Deasey & Scanlan, Philadelphia, Pa., for third-party defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUONGO, District Judge.

Timothy Poller, a longshoreman, injured his back while handling a 110 pound bag of ore. He contended that he sustained the injury when his foot slipped or turned on a piece of dunnage which was part of a "strip dunnage"1 floor under the cargo of ore. Poller sued defendant shipowners, claiming that they had negligently failed to provide a safe place to work and, in addition, had breached...

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