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THE CORAPEAK

No. 3076.

46 F.2d 262 (1931)

THE CORAPEAK. RICKSON v. VELAZQUEZ.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

January 13, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Braden Vandeventer, of Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Eggleston & Black, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

Jacob Louis Morewitz and Morewitz & Morewitz, all of Newport News, Va., for appellee and cross-appellant.

Before PARKER and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel brought by one Benigno Velazquez, a naturalized American citizen, born in Porto Rico, against the steamship Corapeak. The libelant, who was a fireman, claimed to have been injured on the vessel while it was lying off Newport News, and the injury occurred while libelant, who was off duty, was engaged in showing a green hand coal passer how to work an ash ejector. The injury evidently occurred because of the action of the coal...

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