The Governor
District Court, N.D. California
In Admiralty. Suit by Thomas Morgan against the American steamship Governor; the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, claimant. Decree for libelant.
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, District Judge.
[1] Libelant, a fireman on board the steamship Governor, was injured by falling astride a pipe in the engine room; the external nature of the injury being a severe and visible laceration near the medium line in the vicinity of the rectum, and its internal nature being a rupture and laceration of the urethra. The accident occurred about 10 a. m., and an hour before the vessel arrived at Victoria where she remained for something over three hours. From Victoria she proceeded to Seattle, arriving there about 9 p. m., eleven hours after libelant was injured. There was no…
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