The Max Morris

Citations

• 137 U.S. 1
• 11 S. Ct. 29
• 34 L. Ed. 586
• 1890 U.S. LEXIS 2056

Syllabus

<p>Where a person is injured on a vessel, through a marine tort arising partly from the negligence of the officers of the vessel and .partly from his own negligence, and sues the vessel in Admiralty, for damages for his injuries, he is not debarred from all recovery because of the fact that his own negligence contributed to his injuries.</p> <p>Whether, in such case, the decree should be for exactly one-half of the damages sustained, or might, in the discretion of the coart, be for a greater or less proportion of such damages, qucere.</p>