The General De Sonis
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit by John Neiger against the ship General De Sonis, her owner, Société Nouvelle d’Armement, and her master, R. Consinet, by a longshoreman, to recover damages for a personal injury suffered while libelant was assisting in covering a hatchway on the ship, caused by the collapsing of the hatch structure. Decree that the libelant take nothing by his suit in personam, and recover half his damages, with interest, against the ship, with a division of costs.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The libelant was employed by a firm -of stevedores having a contract to discharge the cargo of the ship General De Sonis. At the end of a day’s work the men who were doing the *124work, as employes of- said firm, left'the ship without having replaced the covers qn one of the hatchways, and by direction of their foreman several of the men, including the libelant, returned tq the ship to close the hatchway, and while performing that service the libelant was precipitated through the hatchway into the hold of the ship and badly injured. He prosecutes this suit, in rem and in…
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