Ford v. Allan Line Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort, each by a longshoreman, for injuries sustained oh December 17, 1913, by falling through a defective hatch cover on a vessel of the defendant when engaged in the employ of a stevedore in unloading the vessel lying in the defendant’s dock.
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Three actions of tort, each by a longshoreman, for injuries sustained oh December 17, 1913, by falling through a defective hatch cover on a vessel of the defendant when engaged in the employ of a stevedore in unloading the vessel lying in the defendant’s dock. Writs dated June 1,1914. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Hall, J. The evidence is described in the opinion, where also are stated the defendant’s requests for rulings which were denied by the judge. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each of the cases, in the case of Ford in the sum of $2,500, in…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
These are three actions of tort, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiffs in consequence of falling through a hatchway on the defendant’s steamer, while said steamer was lying at the defendant’s wharf in the city of Boston. The plaintiffs were longshoremen employed by a stevedore to unload the steamer. The stevedore had a contract in writing with the defendant in accordance with which he was unloading the vessel.
On the day of the accident the plaintiffs had gone on board the vessel, which had just docked, and by direction of the stevedore’s foreman had taken off…
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