Boncich v. M. P. Howlett, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GEORGE C. PRATT, District Judge.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

On March 5,1974, the floating steel barge M. P. HOWLETT # 19 was engaged in loading and unloading cargo containers from the Soviet vessel m/v NOVOLVOVSK at a Brooklyn, New York pier. At about 5:30 P.M. a topping lift cable of the barge’s crane parted and the boom fell to the deck of the barge. After the incident, two longshoremen, John Boncich and Frank Mignano, employees of the International Terminal and Operating Company, were found injured and the m/v NOVOLVOVSK sustained damage to its hull. John Boncich subsequently…