Foster v. R. E. Schanzer, Inc.

SAMUEL, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this suit against R. E. Schanzer, Inc. for personal injuries he sustained when struck by falling bags of chicory during the course of discharging and stowing cargo from a ship docked in the Mississippi River.

Defendant answered, denying negligence on its part and alternatively pleading negligence and assumption of risk on the part of plaintiff.

Employers National Insurance Company intervened for reimbursement of compensation benefits and medical payments made by it under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Act.1 Defendant answered the petition of intervention…