EVANS v. OVERSEAS MARITIME CO.

Civ. A. No. 69-417.

330 F.Supp. 654 (1970)

Norris EVANS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. OVERSEAS MARITIME CO., Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. CAROLINA SHIPPING COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

October 27, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey M. Spar, Charleston, S. C., for plaintiff.

B. Allston Moore, Jr., Charleston, S. C., for Overseas Maritime Co., Inc.

Charles H. Gibbs, Charleston, S. C., for Carolina Shipping Co.


ORDER

SIMONS, District Judge.

On July 18, 1968, at approximately four o'clock in the afternoon, Norris J. Evans, Jr., a longshoreman employed by the third-party defendant, Carolina Shipping Company, sustained a very serious injury when a bale of cotton piece goods fell back into the hatch of the vessel upon which he was working and struck him, as it was being lifted out of the hatch. As a result of the accident, he was permanently injured, and he brought...

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