Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.

350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133, 1956 AMC 9 (1956)

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Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.

United States Supreme Court
350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133, 1956 AMC 9 (1956)

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Facts

Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. (Pan-Atlantic) (defendant) operated the cargo ship the Canton Victory. Pan-Atlantic entered into an agreement with Ryan Stevedoring Co. (Ryan) (defendant) to have Ryan perform all stevedoring operations on the vessel. Under this agreement, Ryan workers loaded the Canton Victory with large, heavy rolls of pulpboard, which each weighed approximately 3,200 pounds, in a port in South Carolina. After the Canton Victory traveled to New York, Ryan workers began unloading the cargo. One of the pulpboard rolls broke loose and severely injured a Ryan longshoreman, Frank Palazzolo (plaintiff). Evidence showed that the roll had been insufficiently secured when it was loaded by Ryan and that Pan-Atlantic had failed to discover the unsafe stowage. Palazzolo sued Pan-Atlantic in New York state court. Pan-Atlantic removed the case to federal district court and filed a third-party impleader complaint against Ryan. The district court entered a verdict of $75,000 for Palazzolo against Pan-Atlantic but dismissed Pan-Atlantic’s third-party complaint against Ryan. The court of appeals affirmed the judgment for Palazzolo but reversed the dismissal of the impleader complaint and directed that a judgment be ordered in that matter for Pan-Atlantic. Ryan appealed the reversal of the dismissal of the impleader suit.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Burton, J.)

Dissent (Black, J.)

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