Hunt v. Hobbs, Wall & Co.

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

An able seaman, August Hunt, was killed February 23, 1917, by falling from a beam *438to the deek of the hold on board the steam schooner Mandalay, of 226 tons net register, owned by the libelee, while that vessel was undergoing repairs in a dry dock at the Moore Shipyards in San Francisco Bay. His daughters brought a suit against appellee, the owner, in the superior court of Alameda county, Cal., alleging negligence in the installation and maintenance of the beam from which deeedent fell and that the death of their father resulted from that negligence, and claiming damages…