Anglo-Patagonian
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Libels by William Eedwitch, by Peter Johnson, by Edward Pressy, by Enoch Spratley, and by R. D. Smith, administrator of William Byrd, deceased, against the steamship Anglo-P'atagonian; Stanley Eord, master and claimant. These causes were consolidated and heard together. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
The accident under review happened while the steamship Anglo-Patagonian was in dry dock at Newport News, Va. The vessel had been injured in a collision, which made it necessary to cut away and replace a number of plates in and around the bow and to straighten the stem. In order to have this work done the vessel entered the dry dock, where, after the water had been withdrawn, it rested upon keel and bilge blocks. The rigging gang of the dry dock company, which contracted to make the repairs, erected staging around the bow, on both the starboard and the port sides. This…
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