McDuffie v. Ocean Steamship Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages, from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. April 23, 1908. McDuffie was employed by the Ocean Steamship Company as one of a gang of laborers engaged in trucking and loading bridge iron from the wharf of the company to certain freight cars. There were a number of similar gangs working at the same time and place. Piled upon the wharf were eight or nine pieces of the bridge iron, each about 25 feet long and weighing about 2,000 pounds.
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Action for damages, from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. April 23, 1908. McDuffie was employed by the Ocean Steamship Company as one of a gang of laborers engaged in trucking and loading bridge iron from the wharf of the company to certain freight cars. There were a number of similar gangs working at the same time and place. Piled upon the wharf were eight or nine pieces of the bridge iron, each about 25 feet long and weighing about 2,000 pounds. One piece had been rolled down from the pile and placed on a truck. The plaintiff and-a colaborer were in the act of pushing the truck. He…
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
(After stating the facts as above.)
1. In the case of Brown v. Rome Machine Company, post, 142 (62 S. E. 720), we go at some length into the rationale of why “the law imputes certain assumption and imposes certain duties “upon each of the parties to the relationship created by a contract •of employment, and it will not be necessary now to elaborate these propositions. It is sufficient to say that if the nature •of the master’s work is complex, and involves the presence and ■co-operation of a large number of men, so situated that individual independent action on their respective parts would…
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