Frank Puddu v. Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, and Third-Party v. Maude James, Inc., Third-Party

*753WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a longshoreman, was in the employ of the stevedore corporation, Maude James, Inc., when that corporation was loading refrigerator cargo into a reefer hatch of defendant’s vessel, M.S Helena. Plaintiff, during this operation, was the gangwayman standing by. Presumably, if there were need to give signals to winchmen, that would have been appellant’s function. Appellant was injured when one of the booms, part of the ship’s equipment with which the longshoremen were working, buckled and broke.

Appellant brought suit against defendant Royal Netherlands Steamship…