Bowers v. Seas Shipping Co., Inc

This is a libel in admiralty seeking to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by libellant as the result of respondent’s negligence, and to secure maintenance, care and cure. The District Court, dismissed the libel and libellant appealed to us.

Libellant was junior engineer on the S. S. Robin Sherwood. When this ship was on the high seas, libellant, on November 18, 1948, was ordered to look for some missing tools. He started a search over the ship and in the course of his search, climbed up on a desk or work bench, situated in a work shop, to look into some shelves that…