John C. Davis v. United States Lines Company, and Third-Party (Murphy-Cook& Company, Third-Party and Appellee)

WRIGHT, District Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wherein Appellant, Plaintiff below, was denied the right to allocate between recipients of a settlement a pro rata share of the legal fees incurred in effecting the compromise with the third party tortfeasor, a remedy averred to have been granted by the applicable statutory provisions of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Act 1 pursuant to which the original cause accrued. The facts are not in dispute.

Appellant, John C. Davis employed as a longshoreman by Murphy-Cook…