The James E. Ferris

KNIGHT, District Judge.

The libelant is seeking to recover damages resulting from an injury sustained while working aboard the claimant’s vessel. On March 4, 1931, the steamer was being moored at the foot of Genesee street, having 2>reviously been unloaded elsewhere. One-inch wire cables were being used; the method being to run them to the dock and loop them back to the steamer. This work was made heavy by the fact that, although the cables were on winches, the engines were cold, and the cables had to be hauled by hand.

At the time of the injury, the cable on which the men were working had been…