Munson S. S. Lines v. Newman

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty awarding *417damages for a personal injury sustained by appellee while he was employed as longshoreman and engaged in unloading cargo. A piece of plank used as dunnage was unsound, and broke under appellee’s weight, causing him to lose his balance, with the result that a box of freight which he was lifting fell on him and injured him.

The negligence charged in the libel was the failure to use reasonable care to provide a safe place for the stevedore and his longshoremen to work. It is insisted on this appeal that the failure to use…