MATSON NAVIGATION CO. v. HANSEN

No. 10186.

132 F.2d 487 (1942)

MATSON NAVIGATION CO. v. HANSEN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 12, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Phleger, Maurice E. Harrison, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Robert E. Burns, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Andersen & Resner, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before WILBUR, DENMAN, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court, sitting without jury, awarding to appellee Hansen, an able bodied seaman, damages against appellant for injury to appellee's hand, held to be caused by the acts of appellant in requiring him to work in an unsafe place on appellant's steamer, the Mauna Lei.

The appellant does not question the amount of damages appellee suffered, but claims there is not sufficient evidence to support...

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