Stewart v. Los Angeles S. S. Co.

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed a libel to recover for personal injuries suffered by him by reason of an accident occurring on the I2th day of November, 1930, while he was engaged as an oiler on board the steamship Yale, owned by the Los Angeles Steamship Company. Appellant’s duty was to take care of the auxiliary machinery in the engine room and make thirty-minute rounds over the engine proper, the main bearings, and the shaft bearings. In pursuance of his duties he was called upon to inspect the bearings of the three propeller ■shafts every half hour to ascertain whether they were…