Matson Navigation Co. v. Hansen

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court, sitting without jury, awarding to appellee Hansen, an able bodied seaman, damages against appellant for injury to appellee’s hand, held to be caused by the acts of appellant in requiring him to work in an unsafe place on appellant’s steamer, the Mauna Lei.

The appellant does not question the amount of damages appellee suffered, but claims there is not sufficient evidence to support the court’s findings.

All but one of the witnesses to the accident and conditions prevailing, including the chief mate under whose orders…