The Luckenbach
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel to recover damages for death of seaman.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, Jr., District Judge.
The libelant sues to recover damages for the death of his intestate, who fell overboard and was drowned while engaged in arranging to cast anchor on the steamship Lucken-bach as she was coming into Hampton Roads, near the mouth of the Elizabeth river, preparatory to anchoring at Lamberts Point; the contention being that the accident occurred because of the defective condition of the “trip” line attached to the block used in connection with the lowering of the anchor by the davit to the hawse pipe, as the block and tackle was being drawn back after lowering the…
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