Lund v. Griffiths & Sprague Stevedoring Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered February 6, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a stevedore.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The respondent was injured while in the employ of the appellant working as a stevedore in the hold of the steamship Anyox. The vessel named was the property of the defendant Coastwise Steamship and Barge Company, Inc., who was using it in the lumber trade. Being desirous of taking on a cargo of lumber at Seattle, it engaged the appellant, a stevedoring company, to load the vessel. A part of the equipment of the vessel consisted of two steam winches, sufficiently close together to be operated by a single winch driver. The winches were controlled by levers, so arranged that the winch driver…
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