Engfors v. Nelson Steamship Co.

Parties to the appeal agree that the case must be decided in accordance with the seamen’s act, March 4, 1915, ch. 153, § 20, 38 Stat. 1185; June 5, 1920, ch. 250, § 33, 41 Stat. 1007 (46 U. S. C. A. 688). Under those acts the defense of the assumption of risk has been abolished in all cases where the employer had violated the terms of said acts “except as specified in § 4 of the Federal Employers ’ Liability Act, the employe assumes the ordinary risks of his employment and, when obvious or fully known and appreciated, the extraordinary risks and those due to negligence of his employer and…