Caldarola v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.

Plaintiff, a longshoreman, was injured while working on the deck of a steamship moored at a New York City pier, hy reason of the breaking of a cargo boom which was part of the ship’s gear and which, the jury held, was defective. Plaintiff was not a member of the ship’s crew but was an employee of an outside stevedoring contractor. The vessel was owned by the United States. Plaintiff sued defendants-respondents Eckert, alleging and attempting to prove that those defendants were so much in possession and control of the ship, at the time of the accident, as to make them responsible to third…