Case Name: August Tammis, Appellant, v. Panama Railroad Company, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-07-05
Citations: 238 N.Y. 632
Docket Number: 
Parties: August Tammis, Appellant, v. Panama Railroad Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 632–633

Head Matter:
August Tammis, Appellant, v. Panama Railroad Company, Respondent.
Negligence — master and servant —■ ships and shipping —• action to recover for injury to seaman through explosion of cylinders of steam winch — erroneous charge and refusal to charge.
Tammis v. Panama R. R. Co., 208 App. Div. 706, affirmed.
(Argued June 6, 1924;
decided July 5, 1924.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 7, 1923, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and granting a new trial in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff, a seaman on one of defendant’s vessels, was injured by reason of the explosion of the cylinder head of a steam winch. The Appellate Division held that it was error to charge that a ship owner warrants the seaworthiness and fitness of a ship’s appliances, and also error to refuse to charge that if the defendant supplied such an engine as was customarily used, with an uncracked cylinder, and equipped with proper drain valves, the defendant discharged its duty in providing the ship with a seaworthy engine, and could not be found liable.
Silas B. Axtell for appellant.
Richard Reid Rogers for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed and judgment absolute ordered against appellant on the stipulation, with costs in all courts; no opinion.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.