Legal Opinion
The Wyneric
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided October 7, 1907No. 4,878Published
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
A libel to recover for personal injuries received by libelant while at work stowing lumber in a water ballast tank in the lower hold of the ship Wyneric. Libelant was in the employ of Brown & McCabe, stevedores, who were under contract with the Pacific Export Lumber Company, charterer of the ship, to load her. The charter party represents the ship as being “ready, with clear holds, to receive cargo, and tight, staunch, strong, and in' every way fitted for the service, having water ballast,” etc. On the day of the accident giving rise to the libel, namely, October 4,…
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