Kelly v. Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc.

This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while employed as a longshoreman by the defendant and engaged in hauling a truck loaded with a crate of machinery from the steamship “Cornish,” owned by the defendant, onto Union Wharf in Boston. At the close of the evidence of the plaintiff, the defendant filed a motion for a directed verdict in its favor; this motion was allowed and the plaintiff excepted. The defendant introduced in evidence a release signed by the plaintiff, and a check for $32 made by the defendant payable to the plaintiff and indorsed by him.

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