The Erskine M. Phelps
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Hawaii.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellee was an able-bodied seaman on the Erskine M. Phelps, a full-rigged four-masted ship of 2,715 registered tons, which sailed on May 1, 1903, from the port of Norfolk, Va., bound for the port of Honolulu, Plawaiian Islands. On July 15, 1903, while in latitude 58° 29' south, longitude 65° 30' west, a little to the southward and westward of Cape Horn, the ship encountered *2very heavy gales, and was laboring heavily. About 6 o’clock in the evening, when the ship had just come about, and while the men were hauling at the forebraces, a large wave came over the port…
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