Kulakowich v. Borgestad

WOOD, District Judge.

This is is a motion filed by the defendant shipowner to set aside an entry of default under Rule 55(c). A default was entered in this Court on January 3, 1964, for want of an appearance and answer. This entry occurred some four- and-one-half months after suit was filed on August 8, 1963.

The plaintiff longshoreman was injured while working on the defendant’s vessel S/S Brevik which was docked at Camden Marine Terminal on March 1, *1861963. The defendant claims that no accident was ever reported to the ship’s officers. First notice of the claim was received when suit was…