Brown v. Overton

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

The libellant was a seaman, and the respondent master, of the ship Modern Times, on a voyage from Calcutta to Boston.

When about fifty days out from the Sand-heads, the libellant, • while reefing a topsail in the night time, was' thrown from the yard by the sudden motion of the sail and violence of the wind, and by his fall broke both legs below the knees. There was no person on board skilled in medicine or surgery; but the master, with the aid of a passenger and one of the crew, set the bones *419and secured them by bandages and , splints, as well as he could, and the…