Shaw v. Lauritzen

OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.

This case is before the court on appeal from the entry of a judgment in favor of a third-party defendant stevedoring company (T. Hogan Corporation — hereinafter “Hogan”) and against the third-party plaintiff shipowner and operator (J. Lauritzen — hereinafter “Lauritzen”) on the special verdict of the jury.1 The jury had found Lauritzen liable to the plaintiff, an employee of Hogan, on the ground that unseaworthiness of the ship was the proximate cause of his fall from a ladder in the No. 3 hatch onto bulk nitrate which was being unloaded on May…