Robert F. Trost v. American Hawaiian Steamship Company

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant steamship company appeals from a judgment for $17,410.86 and costs, recovered by the plaintiff after a trial before a judge sitting without a jury. Plaintiff suffered injuries while in a shoreside café, over four miles from his ship, allegedly as a result of the negligent failure- of the ship’s captain to warn him of the existence of an open trap-door through which he fell. On appeal, defendant contends that the District Court’s holdings of negligence and derivative liability were unjustified. Our jurisdiction is based on the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688.

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