McNeil v. United States

GANEY, District Judge.

This is a suit for damages for injuries sustained by libellant. Only the question of liability is before us. From the evidence presented before us, the Court makes the following

Findings of Fact:

1. On April 23, 1947, the libellant, a longshoreman, was engaged in the storing of cargo aboard the S. S. Louis Bamberger, then moored at Pier 46, on the Delaware River, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

2. At the time the libellant was employed by Independent Pier Company, a stevedoring concern which had agreed to load the vessel.

3. The vessel was owned and operated 'by the United…