REEVES, District Judge.
About 11 o'clock A.M., January 27, 1951, the libelant claimed that he suffered an injury or injuries by reason of a fall on the deck of the S. S. Bertha Brovig owned by the respondent.
At that time the said steamship was moored alongside the pier at the foot of 53rd Street in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York. She was taking on cargo. The libelant was at the head of a crew of longshoremen engaged in loading the vessel. It was the libelant...
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