Trenkle

The Crescent Wharf & Warehouse-Company, a corporation, entered into a written contract with Compagnie Gen-érale Transatlantique, a corporation, relative to stevedoring work to be performed at San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles County, California, under which contract Crescent Wharf & Warehouse Company, third party defendant in this action, was-to furnish longshoremen for the loading and unloading of vessels belonging to-Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, third party plaintiff. On or about March 8, 1958, in accordance with said contract, third party defendant dispatched to theM. S. Winnipeg longshoreman gangs for the purpose of loading the ship.

Plaintiff herein was a hold man in the gang assigned to hatch No. 4. The longshoremen removed from the hatch some of the hatch boards, which boards were placed in lockers adjacent to the hatch. The hold men then proceeded to the ’tween deck where their work was to be-performed. Ingress and egress to and from the ’tween deck was by means of a ladder at the aft of the hatch. There was-also a ladder forward of the hatch, but as cargo had been stored adjacent to the-ladder in the ’tween deck the forward ladder was unavailable for use below the…