The Explorer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
Admiralty Appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
On February 8,1882, tbe libelant, Thomas McGrath, while descending the main hatchway of tbe steam-ship Explorer, had his left arm caught in the wheels of a revolving steam-winch, break*136ing tbe bones and tearing off the muscle, resulting in great suffering and in permanently disabling the arm. At the time the steam-ship Explorer lay in the Mississippi river, her bow up the stream, at her wharf in the city of New Orleans, taking on cargo for Liverpool. Mc-Grath was employed as one of a gang of serewmen under the direction of a stevedore engaged in storing cargo in the ship. His duties were in…
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