Maryland ex rel. Dombroska v. Westoll

•MORRIS, District Judge.

This is a libel in personam filed by the widow and children of John Adam Dombroska against the owner of the steamship Gladys Royle for the pecuniary damages to the libel-ants resulting from the death of said John Adam Dombroska, who met his death by falling through a hatch of the steamship into the hold. The steamship came to the port of Baltimore light to receive' cargo. The loading was put in charge of a firm of stevedores, Messrs. Steenken & Berkemeier, and they sent aboard a winchman and gang of stevedores, of whom Dombroska was one, in charge of a foreman. They…