Inland Waterways Corp. v. Doyle

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

William A. Doyle, in October 1947, was a civil service seaman on the steam towboat “St. Louis,” a merchant vessel owned and operated by the Inland Waterways Corporation, a wholly owned instrumental ity of the United States. He was injured in the course of his employment on October 7 and 22, 1947, when he fell, due to oil on the soles of his shoes and on the steps of the metal stairs leading from the upper deck of the vessel’s engine room to the lower deck. The presence of oil on Doyle’s shoe soles and the steps was the result of the engines of the vessel being…