Hanson v. Lyon

This is a libel for personal damages claimed to have been sustained by libelant while employed upon the barge by reason of the negligence of the officers in charge. The material facts, as they aplicar in the pleadings and proofs, are as follows: At the close of navigation, in the year 1881, the Lyon was taken into Miller’s dry-dock, on the North branch of the Chicago river, for some slight repairs; and, on the thirty-first of December of that year, these repairs being completed, the master desired to take her from the dry-dock to the Illinois Central slip, near the mouth of the river, for the…