Larsen
North Alaska Salmon Co. v. Larsen
Opinion
lead Opinion
Gilbert, J.
The appellee shipped as a seaman on the Olympic for a voyage from San Francisco to the appellant’s salmon cannery at Locanock, Alaska, and return. On July 12, 1912, while in that employment and working on a lighter which was alongside the appellant’s dock, engaged in throwing fish into a bucket to be hoisted up to the, wharf, he sustained an injury to his knee. In his libel he alleged that the appellant failed and neglected to furnish him with proper medical and' surgical care and attention, and compelled him to work on board the Olympic after he was injured, that he did not and could not receive proper medical care at Locanock, and that he could and should have been sent by the appellant to Naknek, or to Koggiung, or to Dutch Harbor, where he could have received proper medical and surgical care and attention. Upon the evidence, the court below found that the appellant was negligent as alleged, and decreed that it pay the •appellee $506, together with interest on said sum from December 21, 1912, the date of the filing of the libel, arid the appellee’s costs.
[1] We find no merit in the contention that the cause of suit is not *95 within the admiralty jurisdiction of the court, in…