Saunders v. The Coleridge
District Court, E.D. New York
This was a libel by Thomas' F. Saunders against the steamship Coleridge to recover damages for personal injuries.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
In the afternoon of the 1st of February, 1894, while the libelant was engaged in making some repairs upon the tank in the hold of the steamship Coleridge, his foot was cut by the fall of a chopper belonging to the carpenter, who was at work on the tank upon a platform or scaffold 22 inches wide, and about 6 feet above the bottom of the tank. The wound was a somewhat serious one, and disabled the libelant for work for several months.
The libelant did not belong to the ship, but was in the employ of Mr. White, a boiler maker, by whom he had been sent to make preparation for…
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- Killea v. FaxonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
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- The HaroldDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1884
- Anderson v. The RavensdaleDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1894
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