Briody v. The Persian Monarch
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. In Admiralty. Libel by Briody against the steamship Persian Monarch for personal injuries. There was a decree for libelant, (49 Eed. Bep. 669,) and the libelee appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WAiLACE, Circuit Judge.
The libelant was one of a number of stevedores employed by the corporation owning the steamship in loading and unloading its vessels. He was injured in consequence of the breaking of a guy rope, one of the appliances of a derrick provided for the purpose of loading cargo into, and unloading it from, the hold of the steamship. He was foreman of the gang at an after hatch where cargo was being discharged, his special duty being to attend the fall rope of the derrick at that hatch. Cargo was being taken on board at some of the other hatches, and the stevedores at one of…
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