Regina v. Dunlop S. S. Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The libelant is the widow of Vincenzo Regina, a laboring stevedore, who was killed on December 2i, 1902, by a fall into the hold of the British steamship Queen Eleanor. The vessel had arrived at Philadelphia from Japan early in the month, and, having discharged a cargo of jute at Girard Point, was lying at Point Breeze, in the Schuylkill river, about to be loaded with case oil for her outward voyage. Her inward cargo had been discharged by Murphy & Co., contracting stevedores, by whom, also, the oil was to be put on board. The stevedores who discharged the…