Halverson v. Nisen

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This action is brought to recover compensation for injuries sustained by the libellant, a seaman on the schooner Twilight, by reason of the giving way of a rope to which a triangle on which the libellant was working, was attached. The libellant fell to the deck and sustained grave injuries. The respondents are the owners of the schooner. The rope which gave way was the jib down-haul, and the accident was caused by the chafed condition of the seizing, by which the down-haul block should have been secured. The triangle was rigged by the mate, and it is to his negligence…