Lorentz Ludvigsen, Libelant-Appellant v. Commercial Stevedoring Co., Inc., and the J. L. Mowinckels Rederi

CLARK, Chief Judge.

This is a libel for personal injuries brought by libelant, a lighter captain, against a stevedoring company (the first named respondent) and the owner of the motor vessel Horda (the second named respondent). On July 19, 1950, libelant brought his lighter, a Lehigh Valley scow, alongside the Horda, then moored at Pier 34, Brooklyn, to discharge his cargo on the vessel. In the course of his operation he had occasion to go onto another scow and thence up a Jacob’s ladder (of rope sides and wooden steps) to the Horda’s deck. His case was that, when he was nearly at the top, the…