Legal Opinion
The Buffalo
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided July 24, 1906PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit in rem for personal injury. See 147 Fed.-.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
The libelant, John McNicholl, was employed by Piclcands, Mather & Co., the claimants, to work on the wharf or dock as a helper in loading and unloading ore boats. At about .noon, on September 28, 1904, he, with other dock laborers, was' directed by his employers to board a tug which soon afterwards took the fuel scow Buffalo in tow and proceeded to the assistance of the steamer Venezuela. The latter, ore laden, was aground on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie, a few miles distant from the port of Buffalo. Upon reaching the stranded steamer, the scow moored *305alongside and…
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