Grain Handling Co. v. Sweeney

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill in equity to review an award made under the Longshoremen’s Act (Chapter 18, section 901 et seq., Title 33, U.S. Code, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq.). The claimant, Sweeney, was, and for twenty-five years had been, a “grain-scooper” in Buffalo: between April 25, 1934 and June 15, 1936, he was in the plaintiff’s employ. This work required him to go into the holds of grain ships and there to operate steam shovels, by which the grain was brought within the reach of the moving buckets by which it was discharged. The holds of such…