O'connor, Harrison & Co. v. Klingel

KERRIGAN, District Judge.

This is an appeal by the claimant, O’Connor, Harrison & Co., from a decree in favor of the libelant, H. JET. Klingel, for the sum of $1,814 for personal injuries suffered on board the' steamship Aneiura, owned by claimant. Briefly the facts are as follows:

Libelant was in the employ of a corporation engaged in the business of stevedoring, which was employed to load the vessel with lumber. In such work a steam winch of the friction type was used. While the libelant was standing on the deck of the vessel, being stationed there to aid in landing the sling-loads of lumber,…