The Noranmore

WADDILL, District Judge.

The libelant, Richard Skinner, a longshoreman, was employed by the South Atlantic Export Company, who were doing business as stevedores, to assist in loading the Belgian steamship Noranmore with flour, at the port of Norfolk, on the 19th day of April, 1900. At the time of sustaining the injuries sued for, the libelant was working in the forecastle hatch of said ship, and was injured by the athwart portions of the hatch cover falling in upon him. Said hatch cover consisted of three sections, and at the time of the injury the middle section only was open, and the other…