Sandoval v. Victory Carriers, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BECHTLE, District Judge.

A ten- to twelve-foot long, four- by four-inch piece of lumber separated and fell from a load of similar pieces being hoisted aboard the SS Sagamore Hill by her lifting apparatus, injuring a longshoreman while he was on a pier engaged in the process of loading lumber onto the ship under the direction of his employer, the stevedore. Invoking both the admiralty 1 and di versity 2 jurisdiction of this Court, the injured longshoreman brought an action for damage against the owner and operator of the ship, claiming unseaworthiness of the vessel and…