Brown v. Steamship Terminal Operating Corp.

Crane, Ch. J.

At the Port of Newark, New Jersey, there is a long dock and certain warehouses owned by the United States government and leased to the Mercur Corporation. That corporation operated the warehouses. It is a domestic corporation. The Steamship Terminal Operating Corporation, known as “ S. T, O,,” is a foreign corporation, created under the laws of the State of Delaware, authorized to do business in the State of New York, It was engaged in the work of loading and unloading ships and lighters at the dock; in other words, it was the stevedore. These are the two defendants in this case.

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