John Dougherty, in No. 12678 v. Waterman Steamship Corporation, (Ryan Stevedoring Company, in No. 12679)

STALEY, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals taken by the shipowner, which was both defendant and third-party plaintiff in the actions below, from judgments entered by the district court upon the jury’s verdicts. The primary action was initiated by a longshoreman, Dougherty, to recover damages for personal injuries incurred while unloading appellant’s ship, the S.S. Bien-ville, at Philadelphia on October 8, 1952. Appellant joined Dougherty’s employer, the stevedoring contractor, as a third-party defendant. Upon the answer to the interrogatories propounded to the jury, the district court gave…