WILLIS v. LYKES BROS. S. S. CO.

No. 5210.

23 F.2d 488 (1928)

WILLIS v. LYKES BROS. S. S. CO., Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 16, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Price, of Galveston, Tex., for appellant.

Mart H. Royston, of Galveston, Tex. (Royston & Rayzor, of Galveston, Tex., on the brief), for appellee.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The effect of the decree appealed from was to hold that a ship and her owner were not liable for a personal injury sustained by the appellant while he was acting as an employee of a contracting stevedore, engaged in unloading cargo from the ship.

As appellant was going to his work in the morning of the second day of his service in unloading the cargo, when he stepped from the ladder by which he descended from the main deck to a between...

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