Toyo Kisen Kaisha v. Hartman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Second Division of the Northern District of California; ^Wm. C. Van Fleet, Judge. Action at law by A. D- Hartman against the Toyo Risen Kaisha. Judgment for plaintiff (244 Fed. 567), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error, who brought in the court below this action against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for personal injuries, was employed on the steamship Shinyo Maim, owned and operated by the plaintiff in error between San Francisco and certain Oriental ports, including Nagasaki, Japan. He was on the ship’s articles at a salary of $1 a month, heing the barber of the ship, and receiving the proceeds of the shop. On the occasion in question the ship was at her accustomed anchorage at Nagasaki, at which place ocean-going vessels are not able to go to the…
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