LAFFOON v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORP., (S.D.N.Y. 1950)

NOONAN, District Judge.

Motion granted as to the first cause of action. Seaworthiness is peculiarly and exclusively the obligation of the owner of the vessel. Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, 328 U.S. 85, 100, 66 S.Ct. 872, 90 L.Ed. 1099.

Motion denied as to the second cause of action. Cf. Weade v. Dichmann, Wright Pugh, Inc., 337 U.S. 801, 808, 809, 69 S.Ct. 1326, 93 L.Ed. 1704; Greer v. Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., 1949 A.M.C. 1825.