The Gwynedd
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Suit in admiralty by Joseph Sessich against the tugboat Gwynedd. From a decree dismissing the libel, libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSON, Circuit Judge.
The libelant, Joseph Sessich, was a deckhand on the tugboat Gwynedd, which was under charter to the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. On January 1, 1913, while in the service of the tug, he was injured, and afterwards sued in rem to recover damages. Exceptions to the libel were sustained, and the suit was dismissed; this being the error complained of.
In substance the libel sets forth that, while the tug was employed in towing car floats on the Delaware river in the port of Philadelphia, the libelant and another deckhand were ordered on board one of the floats in…
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