Ziegler v. Alaska Portland Packers' Ass'n

The issues awaiting our disposition can be more readily understood, we believe, after the following undisputed facts have been stated. The defendant was the owner of a large seagoing vessel named the “North King,” upon which the plaintiff was employed in the capacity of second cook; the parties are agreed that he bore the status of a seaman. Upon the occasion when the plaintiff sustained his injuries the North King was bound from Portland to a point in Alaska where the defendant operated a fish cannery. In addition to the cargo carried in the vessel’s hold a quantity of lumber and many bulky…