Frank Arena v. Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc.

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an action brought by a longshoreman injured in the port of Boston while engaged in loading a vessel owned by the defendant. The loading operations were in the sole control of a stevedoring company, plaintiff’s employer.1 The plaintiff was injured when a loading board tipped and spilled rolls of paper into the hold. The complaint alleges negligence in the failure to supply a safe place to work and in supplying defective loading equipment. It also alleges unseaworthiness, again, the allegedly defective loading equipment. At the close of plaintiff’s case the court…