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MARSHALL v. MAASDAM

No. 4481.

5 F.2d 1017 (1925)

Wilson MARSHALL, Appellant, v. Steamship MAASDAM, Appellee (in Forma Pauperis).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 14, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Buren Harris, of New Orleans, La. (James Wilkinson, of New Orleans, La., on the brief), for appellant.

Walter Carroll, of New Orleans, La. (Geo. H. Terriberry, Frazer L. Rice, W. W. Young, and Jos. M. Rault, all of New Orleans, La., on the brief), for appellee.

Before WALKER and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and BARRETT, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, while climbing up a Jacob's ladder, which extended from the deck to the hold of the steamship Maasdam, on which he was employed as a longshoreman to assist in unloading cargo, fell and was injured. He libeled the steamship for negligence. Testimony in his behalf tended to show that the rope on one side of the ladder became untied, as a result of which the ladder collapsed and caused him to fall. On the other hand, evidence for the steamship...

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