Legal Opinion
Cannella v. Lykes Bros. SS Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 27, 1949No. 198, Docket 21222PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from a judgment, setting aside the verdict of a jury in his favor, and dismissing his complaint 'in an action to recover for personal injuries incurred while boarding, a ship of which the defendant was the owner. The plaintiff testified-that the injury happened because of the breaking of the wooden rung of a Jacob’s ladder which led to the ship’s deck from a barge, moored alongside the ship. He was a longshoreman employed by a company with which the defendant had a contract to lade the ship, and he was going up the ladder to cross the ship’s *795deck and…
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