BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty awarding $4,000 as compensation for a personal injury sustained by appellee.
Appellant was the owner of a line of river steamers and barges, which he used in commerce on the Mississippi river and connecting waterways in the vicinity of New Orleans. While one of these steamers, with a barge in tow, was making a landing at a wharf in New Orleans, appellee, a roust-about, attempted to make fast...
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