North Pier Terminal Co. v. Hoskins Coal & Dock Corp.

This is an action by the North Pier Terminal Company, for the use of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, commenced in the superior court of Cook County on June 22, 1942, against the defendant, the Hoskins Coal and Dock Corporation. The terminal company’s insurance carrier is the real party in interest and will be referred to as the plaintiff. The cause of action grows out of the alleged negligence of the defendant in the operation of a crane barge in loading a ship on the navigable waters of the Chicago River whereby Robert Dunkel, a longshoreman employed by the terminal company, was…