HAZEL, District Judge.
The libelant, a seaman employed as a deckhand upon the schooner Montezuma, was ordered by his superior officer at Ft. William, Canada, to go on the dock to put a wire cable over a spile to hold the vessel to the dock preparatory to loading her. After placing the loops of the cable over the spile, and while standing about eight feet therefrom toward the land side of the wharf, he received injuries, owing to the negligence of the officer in charge...
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