Legal Opinion
Vitozi v. Balboa Shipping Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 20, 1946No. Civil Action No. 2470PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FORD, District Judge.
This suit was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while working as a stevedore aboard the S. S. Platano, a vessel owned by the defendant shipping company.
According to the complaint and plaintiff’s answers to interrogatories, plaintiff was performing his duties as a stevedore in a hatch of the S. S. Platano, which he alleged was owned and operated by defendant, while assisting in the loading of a cargo on December 7, 1940. He was pinned against the coaming of the hatch by some bags of flour being lowered into the hatch. The accident was…
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- The BarnstableSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
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