Bellatty v. Barrett Mfg. Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Suits by Adelbert L. Bedlatty against the Barrett Manufacturing Company and C. J. Miers & Son to recover for a personal injury.
1Opinion of the Court
HALE, District Judge.
These libels are brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the driver of a team belonging to C. J. Miers & Son, in loading a barrel of tar which rolled off the wharf upon the schooner’s deck, striking and injuring the libelant. Capt. Bellatty, the libelant, was the master in charge of the schooner Nellie Grant, lying at the Gas House Wharf in the port of Boston, below Charlestown Bridge, taking on a general cargo. The schooner was partly loaded with cement in the hold, and on April 10, 1911, was taking on a number of barrels…
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