Hermann v. Port Blakely Mill Co.
District Court, N.D. California
Libel in personam to recover $10,000 as damages for injuries alleged to ha,ve been caused by the negligence of the defendant corporation through its employé on board the American ship Kate Davenport, while libelant was engaged, as first mate, in supervising and assisting the loading of the vessel with lumber. Libel dismissed, the injury having been received through the negligence of a fellow servant.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
The libelant sues for $10,000, as damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant corporation, through one of its employés, on board the American ship Kate Davenport, while he was engaged in loading- the vessel with lumber at Port Blakely, state of Washington.
The facts of the case are, briefly, these: Libelant was the first mate of the vessel, and, at the time he sustained Ms injury, was in the between decks on the port side, supervising and assisting in the loading- of lumber. He had a gang of four men working under him, receiving…
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