Alden v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

While the appellant was serving as a pumpman on the tank steamer Keekoskee, when it was being towed by the tug Hukey from Pensacola to New Orleans, he was, during the morning of June 20,1923, ordered to overhaul the pumps in the pumproom, and about the same time two other employees on the steamer were ordered to go to the engine room and start the *160generator, •which was necessary to be done for the appellant to have lights for the overhauling of the pumps. The appellant went with the other two employees to the engine room, where the generator was to be started, intending…