Case Name: The Montauk
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1883-04
Citations: 17 F. 96
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Montauk.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 17
Pages: 96–96

Head Matter:
The Montauk.
(District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.
April Term, 1883.)
Personal Injuries to Seaman.
A seaman cannot recover for injuries resulting from his own carelessness in executing a proper order of the master.
In Admiralty. Libel for damages for personal injury.
Willey, Sherman é Hoyt, for libelant.
Goulder é Weh, for respondent.

Opinion:
Welker, J.
The libelant was the wheelsman on the Montauk, and while in the Sault Ste. Marie river the schooner, on the fourth of August, 1881, in tow of a tug, ran aground, and the libelant, then at the wheel executing an order of the master, was injured by the wheel spinning around and striking him. The libelant claims that the master gave him an improper order, and that, while executing it, he was injured without his fault. This is denied, and it is alleged the libelant was injured through his own carelessness. The court finds that the order given the wheelsman, from the weight, of the evidence, was a proper one; that the libelant, in executing the order, was himself guilty of carelessness, which produced the injury, and therefore not entitled to recover. The libel is dismissed, with costs, and the appeal allowed.