Legal Opinion

The City of San Antonio

District Court, E.D. Virginia

Decided February 23, 1905Published

In Admiralty. Libel to recover damages for personal injury.

1Opinion of the Court

WADDILL, District Judge.

The libelant, Andrew Williams, a longshoreman, was employed by Dalby, Nottingham & Co., stevedores engaged in the removal of a cargo of crushed stone from the ocean-going barge City of San Antonio. The stevedores furnished the necessary longshoremen, consisting of four laborers, who worked in the hold of the barge, filling the buckets with stone, and a gangwayman, who stood on the upper deck of the barge to direct the movements of the same, as they were filled, by giving notice of such fact to the operator of the steam winch used in raising the stone. They also…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. The SlingsbyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903
  2. Maier v. Fidelity Mut. Life Ass'nCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1897
  3. The GladestryCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1904
  4. The SlingsbyDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1902
  5. The EltonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1904

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