Casbon v. Stockard Steamship Corporation

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Alleging unseaworthiness, Casbon, an employee of a stevedoring contractor, seeks recovery from respondent shipowner for injuries sustained by him when a scaffold, from which he was building a fire wall in the lower hold of the S.S. Oberlin Victory, collapsed. Respondent shipowner first strongly argues that it is Casbon’s statutory employer under § 4 of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act 1 and that, consequently, that Act provides his exclusive remedy. 2 Alternatively, respondent suggests that the scaffold was built by Casbon and a…