THE WACO

No. 153.

3 F.2d 476 (1925)

THE WACO. BROCKLEHURST v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 30, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl G. Kirsch, of Philadelphia, Pa., for libelant.

Howard H. Yocum, of Philadelphia, Pa., for the United States.


THOMPSON, District Judge.

This suit was brought by Joseph M. Brocklehurst, a seaman rated as water tender upon the steamship Waco, to recover damages for personal injuries received by him in attending to his duties while engaged in putting in place a boiler cover, which slipped and fell, striking and injuring the libelant's foot. The libelant had signed upon the Waco as a water tender about one week prior to his injury. The Waco was lying at her dock at Philadelphia...

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