Revel v. American Export Lines, Inc.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN,

District Judge.

Plaintiff, Revel, a longshoreman employed by Whitehall Terminal Corporation (hereinafter referred to as Whitehall), was injured on June 9, 1956, while engaged in the peformance of his duties as a slinger loading the_ S.S. Executor, a vessel owned and operated by the defendant, American Export Lines, Inc. (hereinafter called Export), at a time when the Executor was docked at Pier 1, Army Base, Norfolk, Virginia.

Export had space-chartered a portion of the cargo space to the United States of America, pursuant to a contract executed with Military Sea Transport…