L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The libellant was a cook employed on one of the respondent's harbor tugs. The crew of five consisted of a master, a deckhand, an engineer, a fireman, and the libellant, who engaged not only as cook, but as deckhand if needed. On the morning in question the deckhand failed to appear when the tug left her berth; he boarded the tug only after the accident. Part of the tug's work was to pick up two scows lying side by side at a pier end in the...
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