Johnson v. Spear
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Marquette. (Grant, J.) Negligence case. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion, as also the points of counsel passed upon by the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Johnson was injured while unloading coal from a vessel moored at defendant’s dock.
The defendant owns a coal-dock in the city of Marquette, and during the season of navigation large quantities of coal are unloaded thereon from vessels. The vessel crews have nothing to do with unloading the cargoes, which was done by means of a small engine and apparatus belonging to defendant, placed on the dock, and operated by an engineer employed by defendant, by mean's of which large iron buckets loaded with coal in the hold of the vessel were hoisted out of the hold, elevated to a platform, and dumped…
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