Simpson v. . Atlantic Coast Shipping Company, Inc.

Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 21, 1921, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for "personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant, his employer. Plaintiff, a longshoreman in the employ of defendant, was engaged with a gang of men in shifting the boom of a derrick upon a vessel which was about to be unloaded. The boom was too heavy for the gang to handle and got away from them and in consequence plaintiff…