Hurley v. The Lizzie Frank

The libel in this case is filed by a seaman to recover damages for personal injury while in the performance of his duty on board of the tug-boat Lizzie Frank. The libel avers that the cause of the accident from which the injury resulted was the Imperfect, insecure, and negligent manner in which a certain appliance or part of said boat, used in towing and designated as the “chock,” was fastened; that such insecure fastening was a defect in the structure and equipment of said tug; and that it broke from its insecure fastening, and struck the libel-ant, doing him serious bodily injury. It is…