Nogueira v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant to work as a freight handler upon its docks and car floats. On October 13, 1927, at the time of sustaining the injuries complained of, he was working as one of a gang of freight handlers in loading heavy bales of paper, destined for transportation in interstate commerce, onto a 500-lon car float moored at Pier 42, East River. His work consisted in placing a bale of paper upon a hand truck and drawing it some 15 feet along the dock, and thence down an inclined plank which led from the dock to the ear float. In going down the…