Shaw v. Lauritzen

OPINION AND ORDER

BODY, District Judge.

The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant, J. Lauritzen, owner of the “SS Tenna Dan”, for injuries arising\>ut of an accident which occurred on May 31, 1963 aboard the “SS Tenna Dan”. The defendant, as third-party plaintiff, sued T. Hogan Corporation which was plaintiff’s employer and had been engaged to unload powdery nitrate from the ship’s No. 3 hatch. The defendant also sued the South Jersey Port Commission which was the owner and operator of the moveable shoreside crane operated on tracks. It used a yellow claw bucket to remove the bulk…