Stevenson v. The Steamship Boveric
District Court, D. Alaska
This suit is for personal injuries received by the libelant, a stevedore, when engaged in discharging cargo on board the British steamer Boveric. At the time of the injuries the ship was under charter from its owners, Andrew Wier & Co., the respondents, to the Northwestern Steamship Company.
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This suit is for personal injuries received by the libelant, a stevedore, when engaged in discharging cargo on board the British steamer Boveric. At the time of the injuries the ship was under charter from its owners, Andrew Wier & Co., the respondents, to the Northwestern Steamship Company. The cargo, consisting of coal in sacks and in bulk, was received at Nanaimo, British Columbia, and the ship in the course of her voyage therefrom had reached the roadstead off the mouth of Solomon river, Alaska, about 35 miles from the town of Nome, Alaska. There on July 17, 1907, the libelant was…
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, District Judge.-
That the winchman in charge of’ the amidship boom was guilty of want of ordinary care in hoisting the scales and sling till they came in collision with the boom above and the gin block was clearly proven by the evidence. He seems to have disregarded the signal of the hatchway tender to lower the scales, if he observed the signal, and he does not in his testimony deny that the hatchwayman made the signal, or that he noticed it. The winchman had the independent duty cast upon him, by virtue of his position- and *461relations to the ship and work to be observant, and to so…
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