Oien v. The Antonio Zambrana

THOMAS, District Judge.

Upon a dark night, the mate of a ship advised the master thereof that the bow line holding the ship to a wharf in the city of Yew York had been thrown off the cleat on such wharf, whereupon the master directed the ship to be moved astern. The line, in fact, had not been thrown off by the person on the wharf who attempted the same; and the libelant, an able seaman, who had cast the turns of the line off the bitts on the ship, and had given it slack to enable it to be cast off the cleat, was in an unexplained way caught by the line running out, and grievously injured. The…