The Max Morris
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Personal injuries.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The libelant was one of a gang of stevedores’ men who, on the evening of October 27, 1884, went aboard the steam-ship Max Morris, lying at her wharf, to shovel coal. In passing from forward aft, the libelant was obliged to pass over what is termed the “lower bridge,” a structure about 50 feet long amid-ships, extending from rail to rail, and about 6 feet above the main deck. He went up a ladder of the usual kind on the port side; passed directly aft on that side; and, finding an opening through the guard-rail at the after-end of this lower bridge, corresponding in place with the forward…
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