Mollica v. Chilean Line

EDELSTEIN, District Judge.

The defendant- has moved for judgment notwithstanding a verdict for the plaintiff, in a suit by a longshoreman for personal injuries sustained while working aboard defendant’s vessel. Plaintiff was an employee of an independently contracted stevedore, engaged to load cargo into the holds of the Chilean Line steamship'. The loading operation had commenced at 8:00 a. m. of August IS, 1949, the day of the accident, -and the first gang continued to work until 6:00 p. m. or 6:15 p. m. A second shift started work at 7:00 p. m., and the -accident causing injury to the…