Stanley Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, (Two Cases). Stanley Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This action arises under the 1972 amendments to the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act of 1927,1 a remedial statute governing suits by longshoremen injured upon navigable waters in the course of their employment. Plaintiff Stanley Edmonds, a longshoreman employed by Nacirema Operating Company, which was not a party to this case, was injured while unloading rolling cargo containers from the S. S. Atlantic Cognac, a vessel owned by defendant Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, at Portsmouth, *189Virginia, on March 3, 1974. Edmonds received statutory…