Rutley v. Honor & Co.

This is a suit by a longshoreman under the Employers’ Liability Act.

The plaintiff alleged that he was employed by the defendants to work upon a wharf handling creosote cross ties; that his duties consisted in binding together a number of cross ties and placing a chain around them to load them upon a ship; that his occupation was hazardous; that on June 29th, 1926, while he was assembling and stacking cross ties the chain which bound the ties together broke and caused a piece of creosoted timber to strike him upon the head, spilling creosote upon his body, and into his left eye; that his eye…