The Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Eouisiana; Rufus E. Eoster, Judge. Suit in admiralty by Frank Howard against the steamship Alabama, as to which Holdt & Isaachsen were claimants, and others. Decree for respondents, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BATTS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, Frank Howard, libeled the steamship Alabama for personal injuries. The libel charges that libel-ant was engaged as a stevedore in loading the steamship at New Orleans; that he started to go down into hatch No. 1, to prepare for work therein; that there was no ladder descending into this hatch, but there was a handhold just below the deck, and below the handhold uneven ends of boards, jutting out from the partition running lengthwise through the middle of the ship; that this was the usual and customary way held out by the owners and masters of the vessel for…
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