Pottage v. Luckenbach S.S. Co., Inc.

In this cause the judgment in favor of respondent Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., a corporation, is reversed and the court below is directed to overrule the demurrer of said defendant. The basis for this ruling follows:

The action is for what may be termed a marine tort. On January 21, 1924, plaintiff, a hatch-tender employed by the above-named respondent Stevedore Company, but not in the employ of the above-named respondent Steamship Company, while working on board the steamship “Edgar F. Luckenbach,” owned by respondent Steamship Company, and then and there in the navigable waters of San…