Coddington

HAZEL, District Judge.

There is little dispute as to the particulars of the accident. Libelant, an aged man of seventy-six years, who earlier in life had been a seaman, was, at the time of the accident, to perform work aboard the seow or derrick Earthquake as night watchman for the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company. While so employed he received severe injuries to his spine owing to a fall against the rail of the tug Ross Coddington which was transporting him from ashore, while in the act of stepping from her deck rail to the adjacent seow which was in service lightering a coal cargo from the…