Basquall v. The City of Carlisle
District Court, D. Oregon
In Admiralty. Libel for damages for injuries sustained, and neglect and maltreatment thereafter.
1Opinion of the CourtDeady, J.
William Basquall, a minor, by his guardian, Frederick V. Holman, brings this suit against the British bark City of Carlisle, and her master, C. D. Moore, to recover $15,000 damages, for an injury sustained by him on board said bark, and neglect and maltreatment thereafter.
The charge in the libel is shortly this: In sending the main lower topsail down on one occasion, the work was so carelessly and negligently done as to cause the starboard clew-iron thereof to strike the libelant on the head and fracture his skull; and thereafter the master failed to give or procure for the libelant such…
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