Harrell v. Lykes Brothers SS Co.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Harrell was employed ns a longshoreman by Southern Stevedoring Company. While working in the tween deck, stowing cargo, he was struck by a 100-lb. sack of corn, which fell from a pallet being brought over the hatch through the use of the vessel’s equipment operated by an employee of Southern Stevedoring Company. Harrell is suing the owner of the vessel, respondents herein, on the theory that the derrickman, employed by Southern Stevedoring Company, whose duty it was to warn longshoremen working in the hold of the vessel of presence of the pallet overhead,…