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239 F.2d 862

Docket No. 51, Docket 24022.

Ventrone v. United States

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Dec. 12,13,1956.

Decided Jan. 7, 1957.

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1957-01-07

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1965

3 federal appellate ·

3 counsel of record

Relies on Ventrone v. United States

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1957-01-07

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¶1Samuel P. Fensterstock, New York City, for libelant-appellant; Jacob Rass-ner, Thomas F. Frawley and Harvey Goldstein, New York City, of counsel.

¶2George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard P. Moore, U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., Leavenworth Colby and Howard F. Fanning, Attys., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent-appellee-appellant.

¶3Purdy, Lamb & Catoggio, New York City, for impleaded-respondent; Edmund F. Lamb, New York City, of counsel.

¶4Before SWAN, MEDINA and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6This appeal raises only questions of ' fact. The trial judge discredited the testimony of the libelant’s three witnesses for reasons stated in his opinion, and found that the vessel was not unsea-worthy, that the respondent was not negligent, and that the accident resulted from carelessness or inattention to duty on the part of libelant’s fellow longshoreman. The decree is affirmed on the opinion below, reported in D.C., 134 F.Supp. 169.

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