Berti v. Compagnie De Navigation Cyprien Fabre (American Stevedores, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee)

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the recurring problems of liability of a vessel owner to an injured employee of the stevedore it has hired to load or unload the vessel and of the liability of the stevedore for indemnity to the vessel owner.

Plaintiff, Thomas Berti, a longshoreman employed by third-party defendant, The American Stevedores, Inc., was injured in the course of his employment while loading a vessel owned and operated by defendant-appellant, Com-pagnie de Navigation Cyprien Fabre. American was in charge of the loading operation, during which it stationed plaintiff on the…