The Robert C. McQuillen
District Court, D. Connecticut
This was a libel in rem by Louis Johnson against the schooner Kobert G. McQuillen, her tackle, etc., to recover for personal injuries received by libelant while serving as a seaman on such vessel.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, District Judge.
On the 3d day of September, 1895, the libelant was a seaman on the three-masted schooner Robert O. McQuillen. In the afternoon of said day, when the schooner was in the Gulf Stream, cf. the North Carolina coast, on her return voyage from Darien, Ga., to the port of New York, the order was given to reef the mainsail. It was storming at the time. There was a heavy sea on, and the vessel was lurching and rolling heavily, and had fallen cf. a point or two from her course. James Krouse, the first mate, who was then in charge of the deck, directed libelant, while the…
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