Brown v. Kelly

Simmons, Justice.

Brown sued Smith & Kelly for damages, alleging m substance that he was engaged as a laborer in discharging a vessel laden with coal lying at the wharf of C. Ii. Dixon, in Savanuah ; that it was his duty to remain in the hold of the vessel to receive empty tubs as the_y were lowered into the hold, and to unhook them from the hoisting rope, and hook thereon full tubs to be hoisted therefrom; that there was also then and there employed in discharging the vessel a certain pair of mules, the property of said Smith & Kelly, managed and controlled by their servant, these mules being…