Ocean Steamship Co. v. Matthews

Simmons, Justice.

The plaintiff’, while in the employment of the defendant, and in the discharge of his duty in the lower hold of a ship, was injured by a falling bale of cotton. He alleged in his declaration, that he was hurt beeause the hooks by which the cotton was lowered from the ■upper part of the ship, were, by the negligence and default of the defendant, unsafely constructed, in disrepair, unfit for use, of defective and improper material, in an unsafe condition and unfit for the purpose for which they were being used, being so defective as not to securely hold the cotton, on account…