WEINFELD, District Judge.
The libelant, a longshoreman, was injured aboard the respondent's vessel while working in the number 3 lower hold.
A draft containing a wooden crate had been lowered to a distance of about a foot above the deck of the hold; the draft was in a stationary position in order to permit it to be maneuvered into place; libelant...
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