ROSELLINI, J.
On December 2, 1958, the plaintiff was employed as a seaman aboard the SS India Mail, a ship belonging to the defendant American Mail Line, Ltd., and was engaged with others in removing bags of soiled linen while the ship was in port at Seattle. His duties in this respect required that he lift the bags from the floor of a passageway which opened onto the deck, and pass them through the door to another seaman outside. In so doing he tripped over...
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