Maggiolo v. The Mineola

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries done to the libelant by the falling upon him, in the bold of a ship where he was working, of bags of sugar weighing about 800 pounds. The immediate result was the breaking of his ankle, and a rapture. By reason of those injuries, he was confined in the hospital for 85 days, and for 5 months after he came out of the hospital it was difficult for him to walk by the aid of a stick. He is 82 years of age; was a sea-faring man in Italy; arrived in this country five or six months before the accident, and after his arrival be worked as a…