Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. United States

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

The present proceeding is an impleading petition for exoneration or indemnity against the United States of America brought by a respondent in a libel from whom the original libelant had sought damages for injuries to its derrick lighter Abbate, occasioned by a fire on a Hoboken pier on August 11, 1944. In the libel it was alleged that, while the lighter was discharging its cargo at the pier, the respondent, here the petitioner-appellant, carelessly permitted and caused a c'hisel truck it was operating ito collide with some metal drums on the pier containing highly…