Tampa Interocean S. S. Co. v. Jorgensen

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Sigvald Jorgensen, an able seaman of long experience, was injured by falling through' the hatchway into the hold of his vessel, and recovered in a jury trial damages of the ship’s owner, Tampa Inter-ocean Steamship Company, under section 33 of the Merchant Marine Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688. The Steamship Company appealing assigns as error a refusal to instruct the jury to find for the defendant and the refusal to give certain requested charges.

The plaintiff below contended, and here contends, that appellant was negligent in not furnishing him a safe place to work and in…