Anderson v. Clark
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, a seaman, on a fishing schooner owned by the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which, so far as material, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff, a seaman on a fishing schooner owned by the defend*369ant, was injured under the following circumstances. While the vessel was at anchor in a heavy sea, it became necessary to pay out the cable, and while this was being done the cable slipped between the end of the windlass and the windlass bits, and became fast. To ease the strain on the cable, the master took a rope called the foreboom guy, which had an iron hook on one end, made a hitch with one end of the rope around the cable about twelve feet from the windlass, and passed the other end…
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