Williams v. Churchill

This action is brought by the cook of a steam tug against the owner of the tug, who was also its master, to Recover for personal injuries caused by the plaintiff’s getting entangled in the loose end of a line which he was engaged in making fast to a cleat toward the bow of his vessel. The bow *244line was said to be more dangerous than the stern line; but this only means that the strain upon it was likely to be greater, and, although it seems to have been more usual to employ the plaintiff at the stern, a part of his duty was to work on deck generally, and, upon the whole evidence, we think it…