Peter Calderola v. Cunard Steamship Company Limited, and Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellee v. John T. Clark & Son, Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant

LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

These are appeals from two judgments

of the district court, the first entered upon a jury verdict holding Cunard Steamship Company liable to Peter Calderola for injuries suffered by Calderola while working as a longshoreman on Cunard’s ship, the S.S. Media, and the second entered upon findings made by the court without a jury holding John T. Clark & Son, the stevedoring firm that employed Calderola, liable to indemnify Cunard under the stevedoring contract between Clark and Cunard.

On August 17, 1956, Calderola was working as a winch operator at the No. 6 hatch of the…