Bordas & Company, Impleaded-Respondents v. Jesus Pizarro Serrano, Fletes Maritimos, S. A. v. Jesus Pizarro Serrano

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

The only substantial question raised on these appeals is whether the evidence warrants the district court’s finding that respondent’s vessel on which libelant, a longshoreman employed by impleaded-respondent stevedore, was injured was unseaworthy. Libelant was struck when a number of bags of cement toppled over onto the floor of the hatch where he was loading other bags onto a pallet. The court was fully justified in finding that the bags were piled stack on stack rather than interlocked or crisscross, 1 and that the stevedore, instead of removing one layer at a time,…