Brown v. American-Hawaiian S. S. Co.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

On February 4, 1949, one Preston Brown, then an employee of Luekenbach Steamship Company, Inc., was injured while aboard the S. S. Belgium Victory, a vessel operated under bareboat charter by American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. At the time of the injury Lucken-baeh had a stevedoring contract with American-Hawaiian pursuant to which Brown and other stevedore employees of Luekenbach were engaged in unloading operations. Brown instituted a civil suit against Ameriean-Hawaiian, as pro hao vice owner of the vessel, alleging unseaworthiness and negligence in that it had…