Redman v. United Fruit Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The libellant sued to recover for injuries which he suffered on July 25, 1944, through the collapse of a wooden scaffold on the Steamship Leonatus. The suit was originally brought against the United States, the War Shipping Administration, the Danish Ship Operating Corporation, the Chelsea Ship Repair Company, respondents, and Robert Banks & Co., impleaded respondents. More than three years after the accident the Turbine Engineering Corporation and United Fruit Company were brought in as additional respondents.

Judge Bondy, who presided at the original trial,…