Willis v. Lykes Bros. S. S. Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The effect of the decree appealed from was to hold that a ship and her owner were not liable for a personal injury sustained by the appellant while he was acting as an employee of a contracting stevedore, engaged in unloiadingcargo from the ship.

As appellant was going to his work in the morning of the second day of his service in unloading the cargo, when he stepped from the ladder by which he descended from the main deck to a between-deek which was used for carrying cattle, it was dark there, and he stumbled over one of the footloeks, made of plank or concrete slats…