Petersen v. The Lamington
District Court, E.D. New York
This was a libel in rem, by John Petersen against the British steamship Lamington, George W. Duff, claimant, to recover damages for personal injuries.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
In January, 1893, John Petersen, the libelant, a Norwegian, shipped as an able seaman on board the British ship Lamington, at Buenos Ayres. On the 7th day of March, 1893, the vessel was off Cape Hatteras, and the libelant, while attempting to furl sail, fell to the deck, and received serious injuries. The Lamington was a two-masted schooner-rigged vessel, witl? a cross-foreyard. The fore-trysail was a fore and aft sail, rigged on standing spars. While the crew were brailing in the fore-trysail, one or more of the brails broke. Thereupon the libelant went up the *753rigging…
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