The City of San Antonio
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, in Admiralty. For opinion below, see 135 Fed. 879.
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
This is a libel in rem to recover damages for injuries sustained by the libelant, Andrew Williams, a stevedore who was working in the hold of the barge City San Antonio, while she was lying in the port of Norfolk discharging a cargo of crushed stone. The barge was in a dock between two piers at Lambert’s Point with her bow to the river and her port side next to the wharf. The crushed stone was being taken out in buckets holding about half a ton, which were hoisted to the deck by a steam winch, and swung over to railroad cars on the pier. The barge had an intermediate…
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