Delpy v. Crowley Launch & Tugboat Co.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing, without leave to amend, a tug-master’s amended libel in personam against the tug’s owner. The libel alleges that he was the master of a tugboat of the Tugboat Company on the Bay of San Francisco, during the several years of his employment thereon and up to his discharge by the Company. It further alleges that the master was injured in the use of a ladder supplied the ship by the owner, which had a missing lower rung which it was claimed made the ship unseaworthy in that regard. The injury alleged arose from a fall due to the…