Legal Opinion
George W. Dixon, Libelant-Appellee v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 7, 1955No. 23255_1PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLAN, Circuit Judge.
The appellant’s steamship Hal'ton R. Carey sailed from New York in all respects seaworthy and was in that condition upon her arrival at Aalborg, Denmark, in November 1951. While she was discharging coal at that port stevedores accidentally broke out one of the three bottom rungs of the aft ladder in the No. 2 hatch and bent the other two. The appellee Dixon, who was the chief officer of the ship, discovered this damage and reported it both to the master and to the ship’s agent ashore. The repair of the damage was promptly ordered and was undertaken by shore repairmen on…
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