Hoof v. Pacific American Fisheries
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western 'District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Action at law by Emil Hoof against the Pacific American Fisheries. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in his complaint in the court below pleaded diversity of citizenship of the parties, and alleged that on April 16, 1919, he was employed by the defendant in the capacity of watchman on a vessel belonging to the defendant, “but not yet completed,” bearing the name of Cteo; that while he was making the rounds as watchman, in attempting to descend from the forward bridge deck to the forward main deck by means of steps which had *368been prepared and placed there by the defendant for that purpose, the steps being insufficiently secured in place, and not protected…
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