Wickman v. Twin Harbor Stevedoring & Tug Co.

The plaintiff, Wickman, commenced this action in the superior court .for Grays Harbor county, seeking recovery of damages for personal injuries which he claims to have suffered as the result of the negligence of the defendant stevedoring company, while he was employed by it in stowing lumber in the hold of a steamship being loaded by it at Aberdeen for an ocean voyage. The alleged negligence is, in brief, that the defendant negligently failed to furnish him, though requested by him and promised by it, a sufficient necessary bull line to enable him to efficiently and safely parbuckle'the heavy…