John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of New York v. Erickson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action by Alec Erickson against the John A. Roebling’s Sons Company of New York. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an able seaman on the schooner Florence Thurlow, at Ponce, Porto Rico, while taking out the cargo fall from the snatch block, got his hand caught between the fall and the pulley, and permanently injured. The vessel was discharging heavy sawed logs 30 to 40 feet long from the lower hold to the ’tween-decks and through a square port in the bow to a lighter.
The plaintiff’s story is that the discharging had been going on for some days in the usual and safe method, which need not be particularly described, when the master for the sake of speed adopted a new and…
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