District Court, S.D. New York May 11, 1959 (Levi v. Nickerson)

DAWSON, District Judge.

In this action tried by the Court without a jury, plaintiff, Leslie Levi, a New York businessman, sues Howard C. Nickerson, a marine surveyor of Florida, alleging that he retained the defendant to determine and test the soundness of construction, the safety and seaworthiness and value of the vessel Waterloo, and that relying on such survey plaintiff bought the vessel.