Joseph Rodriguez v. Olaf Pedersen's Rederi A/s, and Third-Party v. American Stevedores, Inc., Third-Party and A. M. Kristopher Co., Inc., Third-Party

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this case we again have the three-cornered lawsuit involving an injured longshoreman, the shipowner and the stevedore. The complexity of the issues before us is lessened somewhat because on appeal only the stevedore and the shipowner remain in the litigation, the stevedore appealing from the grant of summary judgment for the shipowner on the latter’s third-party complaint, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Edward R. Neaher, J. We affirm.

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Since the facts of the case are set out in detail in Judge Neaher’s thorough opinion,…