Vanier v. Swett

HALE, District Judge.

This suit is for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the libelant while employed as longshoreman, in ship carpenter work, fitting up the steamship Virginia, pre•paratory to her loading grain, while lying at a wharf in Portland harbor. The respondent was under contract with the master of the steamship to furnish labor and materials required in erecting shifting boards to fit up the steamship for loading a cargo of grain. The steamship is a large vessel, so constructed in her lower hold, with iron stanchions about three inches apart, that two-inch planks can…