The Gladiolus

The libelant, Margaret McGinty, complains that her husband, Thomas McGinty, while employed as foreman of a stevedore’s gang on board the steam-ship Gladiolus, on the nineteenth day of September, 1883, fell through a hatchway, which had been negligently and carelessly left open, and was so badly injured that he died from the effects of the fall in about six hours, and she brings this action for $15,000 damages.

The only questions in the case found necessary to consider have been as to the negligence of the officers of the ship in leaving the hatchway uncovered, or that of the party killed in…