Court Opinion

ID: 8798233
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 14:20:04.36709+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:03:45.178341
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PER CURIAM.
This is a libel in admiralty to recover damages from the schooner Granville R. Bacon for injuries in unloading cargo. The decree of the District Court, without assigning specific reasons therefor, awarded $1,500 for damages.
On the evidence in the transcript, we conclude that the schooner was guilty of negligence as charged, and that the libelant was guilty of contributory negligence. The evidence shows without dispute that the libelant was a young man 21 years of age at the time of his injury; that he was 50 days in bed and suffered pain, and was still suffering pain at the time of testifying; that the minimum fee of the attending physician was $350; that his leg was fractured at tire' hip, and has been shortened, so that he will be a cripple for life, and that, while he may be able to do light work, he can never do the work to which he was accustomed; and that he had been a steady working man, hardly ever unemployed, generally earning $1.75 per day.
From this we infer that the sum of $1,500, allowed by the District Judge, was based on the finding that, while the schooner was guilty of negligence, the libelant was guilty of contributory negligence, and that he followed the admiralty rule in such cases, dividing the damages. See The Max Morris, 137 U. S. 1, 11 Sup. Ct. 29, 34 L. Ed. 386.
The decree appealed from is affirmed.