Posavec v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.

KNOX, Chief Judge.

In this suit, libellant, as administrator of the estate of his son, John J. Posavec, seeks-to recover damages for the personal injuries and death that came to the decedent on the early morning of May 10, 1950.

Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation, at that time, was the owner of a barge known as “Concrete Plant No. 8”. It was then being used in connection with the erection of a bridge across a portion of Chesapeake Bay, within the State of Maryland.

On the night before the accident, the hoppers of the barge were loaded with some two hundred tons of gravel and sand which were to…