Kraft v. Acme Stevedore Co.

This appeal is taken from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against the defendants Acme Stevedore Company, a corporation, and Jack Bishop in the sum of $20,000 for personal injuries received by plaintiff.

The accident happened on June 28, 1927, near a cafeteria at the west end of pier 32 on the San Francisco waterfront. This pier runs in an easterly and westerly direction. Both Kraft and Bishop were employed as operators of small trucks used for transporting freight and towing small, flatcars about the pier. Kraft was operating an electric truck for the Matson Navigation Company while…