Kennedy v. Chase

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was employed by defendants as a stevedore to assist in placing ballast in the ship “John A. Briggs”; that defendants negligently and carelessly left open and unguarded a certain trimming hatch, in a dark and dangerous place on the freight deck of said ship, where plaintiff, “in performing his duties as such stevedore, and in the course of his employment, was compelled to go”; that plaintiff, while in the performance of his duties, fell through said hatchway and suffered the injury complained of. It was…