The Esperanza De Larrinaga
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas; Waller T. Burns, Judge. Ribel by J. M. McNeel against the steamship Esperanza De Rarrina-ga, claimed by the Miguel De Larrinaga Steamship Company. From a decree for libelant, claimant and the sureties on its stipulation appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BATTS, Circuit Judge.
The appellee was an employé of the Galveston Stevedore Company, and, while working as such in the loading of the steamship Esperanza, was injured, and, upon trial of a libel instituted by him, was awarded damages. Appellee was a “toter,” in charge of men loading cotton in the hold of the Esperanza, and was, from the top of a section of the hatch into which the cotton was being lowered, directing the winchman in charge oi the winch by-which the cotton was handled.
The hatch was in three sections, the accident resulting from tire giving way of the cover to the middle…
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