In re Langnes

NETERER, District Judge.

The vessel and equipment being of customary and standard construction, and there being no act disclosed in which the petitioner lacked in tho performance of duty imposed, or performed in violation of imposed duty, he is entitled to total exemption. The most perfect appliances or equipment are not required, but customary employment and good order is the test. The Ubbergen (D. C.) 30 F.(2d) 951; 1925 A. M. C. 557; Luckenbach S. S. Co. v. Buzynski (C. C. A.) 19 F.(2d) 871, 1927 A. M. C. 1185.

It may also be said that by the failure of the fisherman to use the safety…