Pleckaitis v. Henrik Ostervolze Docking Co.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

Peter Pleckaitis, appellee’s intestate, was killed on May 16, 1922, while working on the steamship Marshall as a gangwayman in the employ of the appellee Brady & Gioe, Inc., stevedores. At the time they were unloading sugar from No. 4 hold. A starboard boom, which had been raised in place over No. 4 hatch, broke, striking the intestate, causing his death. It was a topping lift, attached to a lug on a band around the top of the starboard king-post, which fell because a ring attached to the band parted from the band. At the time the stevedores were engaged in raising a…