Figgans v. Aiken

Decided May 28, 1895.)

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1895-05-28

This was a libel by Baptiste Figgans against the steamboat Belle of the Coast to recover damages sustained by libelant, who was employed on board said boat, by reason of having his fingers crushed between the ends of two barrels while engaged in loading sugar at the landing at Pike’s Peak, on the Mississippi river. The district court dismissed the libel, and the libelant has appealed.

2 counsel of record

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1895-05-28

¶1Libel for Personal Injuries—Evidence.

¶2Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

¶3This was a libel by Baptiste Figgans against the steamboat Belle of the Coast to recover damages sustained by libelant, who was employed on board said boat, by reason of having his fingers crushed between the ends of two barrels while engaged in loading sugar at the landing at Pike’s Peak, on the Mississippi river. The district court dismissed the libel, and the libelant has appealed.

¶4W. W. Handlin, for appellant.

¶5E. EL Farrar, B. F. Jonas, E. B. Kruttsehnitt, and Hewes T. Gurley, for appellee.

¶6Before PARDEE and McCORMICK, Circuit Judges, and BRUCE, District Judge.

¶7PER CURIAM.

¶8Only facts are involved in this case. On the evidence, the district judge found against the libelant, and we find the same way. The decree appealed from is affirmed.