Valdivieso v. Insular Line

Hamilton, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

The libel was filed in the district conrt at Ponce, setting out that the libellant, on the 22d day of April, 1913, was employed as a cooper, repairing a box of merchandise which had *486fallen to the lower deck of the steamship S. V. Luckenbaeh, and while attending to his work another box of about 75 pounds fell upon him from the ’tween deck hatchway, where the longshoremen were working, at a distance of about 20 feet, injuring him seriously. The libel states that, to effect the unloading of the steamship, a number of workingmen were hired, among…