Radoslovich v. Navigazione Libera Triestina

This is an action to recover for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff in falling between the side of the steamer Camia, belonging to the defendant, and a wharf in Brooklyn to which the ship was moored. The Carnia arrived at the wharf on March 14th, and shortly thereafter the stevedores who were to discharge her brought alongside, but offshore, the barge Malden, of which the plaintiff was bargee, and which was to receive a cargo of bagged bark. The plaintiff made fast his barge where the stevedores had placed it, and they began to discharge the ship; a checker, who had hoarded the…