Bernardino Figueroa Delgado v. The Steamship Malula, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., and Oscar G. Abello Ameller

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

While the result is to the contrary, this case presents much the same problem dealt with at length in Vega v. Steamship Malula, 5 Cir., 1961, 291 F.2d 415. As a consequence this opinion may be severely compressed.

The libellant was a longshoreman injured while on the dock in the Port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, on January 20, 1955. The libel, however, was not filed until May 5, 1959. As an employee of a stevedoring contractor he was working on the dock in connection with the loading of a cargo of cement on the S.S. Malula, an ocean-going cargo barge. He claimed that…