Antonio Nuzzo v. Rederi, A/s Wallenco, Stockholm, Sweden, Rederi A/b Soya, and Third-Party v. Pittston Stevedoring Corporation, Third- Party

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

Antonio Nuzzo, a longshoreman, brought this action against Rederi, A/S Wallenco, for injuries he received while unloading lumber from defendant’s ship “Boheme” in New York Harbor. The undisputed testimony is that Nuzzo and three others were working in a deep *507tank containing only lumber. The lumber had been loaded on the West Coast and, as is the practice, it had been originally stowed in a series of “false decks.” Boards or planks were laid flat on the hold bottom lengthwise, that is to say parallel with the longitudinal axis of the hold, forming a “floor”; on top of…