The Steam Dredge No. 1

HALE, District Judge.

William Nelson brings his libel in this case against Steam Dredge No. I, owned and operated by the Morris & Cummings Dredging Company, to recover for personal injuries sustained by him in Cape Porpoise Harbor, in the district of Maine, *680on the 14th day of September, 1900. At the time of the injury the libelant was employed as inspector by the United States government on the defendant dredge. The dredge at that time was engaged in dredging Cape Porpoise Harbor under a contract which is in evidence. A book of instructions was furnished by the government’s engineer to the…