WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
The appellee was working as a member of the longshoremen's crew loading the Chinese steamship Shangho and in the course of his employment he started up the gangplank leading from the dock to the upper deck of the vessel. The lashing which had secured the upper end of the gangplank had been removed for the purpose of permitting the ship to be moved a short distance along the dock. Because of the removal of these lashings, the gangplank fell to...
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