Peter Caparro v. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij, N.V.

Peter Caparro, a longshoreman, appeals from a judgment for defendant Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij, N.V., owner of the vessel upon which plaintiff allegedly sustained injury in September 1971. Plaintiff brought this suit, claiming negligence and unseaworthiness, 1 a year later in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After a separate trial on liability, Judge Harold R. Tyler, Jr., directed a verdict for defendant on the negligence claim 2 but submitted the unseaworthiness issue to the jury. After a verdict for plaintiff, the judge granted…