CHASE, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
Though somewhat greasy decks were necessarily concomitant to loading, this did not do away with the duty of the defendant to use whatever care was required to prevent excessive accumulations of oil in places where they would be dangerous to a person rightfully using the deck. That this defendant was guilty of negligence in permitting the pool of oil, in which the plaintiff slipped, to gather and remain where...
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