Hayes v. Western Fuel Co.

Respondent was awarded by a jury a verdict for $5,000 for personal injuries received while employed in filling buckets with coal in the hold of a vessel belonging to appellant. The circumstances of the accident, the extent of the damage and the particular ground for charging responsibility to defendant are disclosed in the following allegations of the complaint:

“That on said twenty-sixth day of March, 1907, while plaintiff was so employed by defendant and while he was so engaged in the performance of the duty for which he was employed, to wit, filling said buckets with coal in the hold of…