The Governor

[1] Libelant, a fireman on board the steamship Governor, was injured by falling astride a pipe in the engine room; the external nature of the injury being a severe and visible laceration near the medium line in the vicinity of the rectum, and its internal nature being a rupture and laceration of the urethra. The accident occurred about 10 a. m., and an hour before the vessel arrived at Victoria where she remained for something over three hours. From Victoria she proceeded to Seattle, arriving there about 9 p. m., eleven hours after libelant was injured. There was no doctor on board, and none was called at Victoria. Nothing was done to the wound before the vessel arrived at Seattle, other than to cleanse it with warm water and peroxide and dress-it with gauze. At Seattle libelant wás taken to a hospital, where the wound was properly treated. The-master did not visit libelant at any time after the injury* and whatever was done looking to his care was done by the first assistant engineer, though the chief engineer visited and had some conversation with him ; the time of such conversation and its tenor being in dispute. He did not examine the injury.- This action is to recover damages…