Cannon v. The Protos
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Appeal by respondent below, the steam-ship Protos, from a decree of the district court awarding SI,250 as damages for injury' to person of libelant, Frank Cannon, incurred while unloading the cargo.
1Opinion of the CourtAciiesoN, J.
After a careful consideration of all the proofs, I am entirely satisfied with the conclusions of the district court, both as respects the fads and the law of the case. I find the facts to he as follows:
1. The libelant was a laborer under a head stevedore, who was employed by the master of the steam-ship Protos to unload her cargo of china-clay at the port of Philadelphia. The libelant was engaged on the vessel, as a shoveler, at this work, on Saturday, February 9, 1889; and, the discharge of the cargo not being completed on that day, he was told to return the next Monday morning.
2. When he…
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