Barlow v. Pan Atlantic SS Corporation

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arises out of physical injuries sustained by Walter H. Barlow during his employment as an ordinary seaman on the “Panama City,” a vessel owned and operated by the Pan Atlantic Steamship Corporation. On the evening of September 27, 1937, while the vessel was lying at a dock in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N. Y,, Barlow fell from the saloon deck to the well deck, a distance of about eight feet. His story of the accident is that he was sitting on a box placed near the top of the ladder leading to the well deck and was listening to a radio in the room of the third…