COLEMAN, District Judge.
The libelant in this case was a longshoreman in the employ of the Atlantic Shipping Company, one of the respondents. While engaged as a winchman in the loading of the steamship Pacific at Baltimore, on July 31, 1926, he was injured by the fall, in the daytime, of the barrel or collar of an iron turnbuckle from aloft. This turnbuckle, one of a pair, was used to fasten one end of a cargo boom, not in use at the time, to a cross-tree on the mast...
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