Wm. Johnson & Co. v. Johansen
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal irom the District Court of The United States for the Eastern District of Texas. Libel by Halward Jobansen, seaman, against Wm. Johnson & Company, Limited, owners of the British Steamship Edenmore, to recover for personal injuries. There was a judgment for libelant, a,nd defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
This libel was brought by the libel-ant, an able seaman of the crew of the British steamship Edenmore, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through a fall from aloft to the deck of said ship, a distance of 30 feet, while the ship was lying at the wharf in the port of Galveston, Tex., in November, 1894. The Edenmore was a two-masted fore and aft rigged steamship, with two winches at the foot of the foremast, one, No. 2, about feet aft the mast, aud the other about 5 or 6 feet forward. The boatswain of the vessel had ordered the libelant to go aloft and paint…
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