Philadelphia & R. R. v. Berg
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action at law by Carl A. Berg against the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought by Carl A. Berg, plaintiff below, a seaman on the barge Wiconisco, owned and operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, to recover in a common-law aciion damages for injuries received by him. The barge was lying in New York Harbor. She had a donkey engine below her decks at the bow, over which was a steam winch being operated at the time of the accident to pull another barge alongside of her on the starboard side. The rope leading from the other barge came in at the starboard chock of the Wiconisco and passed through a 14-inch…
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