Thunberg v. Panama R.

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

There was ample evidence to justify the jury in believing that, when working on defendant’s ship and in the course of his employment, Thunberg slipped and fell while descending a ladder; that his fall aggravated an existing hernia, causing it to become strangulated; that this condition caused him pain and suffering and his death. There was evidence that sacks of potatoes were stored near the ladder in such a way that some of them protruded between the rings of the ladder and so as to obscure adequate vision of *569the rungs. There was no direct evidence that the presence of…