The Elton
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
In accordance with the provisions of a charter party, the steamer Elton, on the 17th of July, 1902, was lying at pier No. 14 on the Delaware river, in Philadelphia, Pa., discharging a cargo of iron ore shipped from Antwerp. Peter Bellew was an employé of stevedore Boney, who at the time was discharging the cargo. Bellew, on the above-mentioned date, was working in the hold of the vessel, inshore side of hatch No. 3, filling ore into tubs, which were raised by means of a chain working on a pulley from a boom and propelled by a steam winch, managed by William Flinn, a…
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