The Iroquois
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ■ ■ FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This was a libel filed in' the District Court for the Northern District of California by Matthew Bridges against the ship Iroquois; to recover damages for a failure of the master to provide suitable surgical treatment and care for the libellant, who had suffered injury by a fall from the main yard to the .deck of the vessel. ■ The facts of the case were substantially as follows: The Iroquois…
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CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ■ ■ FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This was a libel filed in' the District Court for the Northern District of California by Matthew Bridges against the ship Iroquois; to recover damages for a failure of the master to provide suitable surgical treatment and care for the libellant, who had suffered injury by a fall from the main yard to the .deck of the vessel. ■ The facts of the case were substantially as follows: The Iroquois left New York on December 27, 1899, bound for the port of San Francisco, with a full cargo of general merchandise. On…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The duty to provide proper medical treatment and attendance for seamen falling ill or suffering injury in the service of' the ship has: been imposed upon the shipowners by all maritime nations. It appears in the earliest codes of Continental Europe and was expressly recognized by this court in the recent case of The Osceola, 189 U. S. 158. Upon large passenger steamers a physician or surgeon is always- employed, whose duty it is to minister to the passengers and crew in cases .of sickness or accident. Of course, this would be impracticable "upon an ordinary freighting vessel, where the máster…
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