Pabellon v. Grace Line, Inc. (Coston Supply Co., Third-And-Fourth-Party Defendants)

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

In its initial stage this was an action for damages and maintenance and cure by a seaman injured through the alleged negligence of the.original defendant while working upon the latter’s merchant vessel, Santa Isabel. The immediate cause of the injury was alleged to be “a violent and explosive disintegration of some of the appurtenances and appliances upon which, and with which, plaintiff was then and there working,” which resulted in the striking of plaintiff’s, body with fragments of the appurtenances and a- severe and extensive burning of it thereby also occurring. As…