Muti v. Hoey

The action is brought under the act of Congress of June 5, 1920, known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, or the Jones Act, to recover damages resulting from the negligence of the defendants in causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The defendants are stevedores and, at the time of the accident in question, on January 12, 1927, plaintiff’s intestate was in their employ and was engaged upon the steamship Primero at pier 39, East river, Brooklyn, N. Y., in defendants’ work of unloading the cargo from said steamship, and, while so engaged, a part of the cargo, consisting of an automobile…