Pitsillos v. THE S/S GEORGE

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

While the S/S George was one day out of Gibraltar en route to Hampton Roads, Virginia, libellant, whose duties were that of galley boy or second cook, sustained an injury at approximately 6:30 A.M. on July 13, 1957, when he entered the galley and allegedly slipped on cook ing oil which had originally been on the stove and had, according to libellant, turned over, thereby causing the cooking oil to spill over the stove and its outer edges onto the floor. Libellant contends that he slipped and was caused to fall against the corner of a meat block in the galley,…