Anthony Spano v. N. v. Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd, and Third Party v. Universal Terminal & Stevedoring Corp., Third Party

Anthony Spano, employed as a longshoreman by the Universal Terminal and Stevedoring Corporation, was injured on September 6, 1968, while working aboard the defendant’s vessel, the S.S. AMPE-NAN, when he allegedly tripped over a wire, lashing barrels of deck cargo to a pad eye near a hatch coaming.

He brought this diversity action against the shipowner for negligence and unseaworthiness. The case was tried to a jury which found, in a special verdict, that the shipowner was neither negligent nor the vessel unseaworthy because of the presence of the lashing wire.

The appellant now points to twelve…