Texas Menhaden Company v. Philip Palermo

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty. The district judge found that plaintiff-appellee was injured as the result of defendant-appellant’s negligence and failure to furnish a seaworthy vessel. Appellee, a Menhaden fisherman, was injured when he slipped and fell against a cleat in a small fishing boat, sustaining injuries in the region of the coccyx. Among others, there were contentions by the appellee that it was negligence to fail to clean the fish slime from the fishing boats prior to each day’s operation, and that boats in a slimy condition were un-seaworthy.

Appellant asserts three…