Malcolm B. Tebbs v. Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered by the District Court of the Virgin Islands in a suit for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. The facts are fully set out in the opinion filed by Judge Moore in the district court, 3 V.1. 186, 139 F. Supp. 56, and need not be repeated here in detail. Suffice it to say that the plaintiff sought damages for injuries which he suffered when the crutches which he was using because of a previously fractured leg slipped on a freshly oiled floor on the defendant’s…