Cashman v. Chase

The plaintiff, while at work in the hold of a vessel, was struck by a hook swinging at the end of a fall, and which escaped from the control of a fellow workman. The fall was raised and lowered by a steam-engine placed on a lighter between the vessel and the wharf. The orders to raise and lower were given by a workman in the hold to a stageman on the deck of 'the vessel, and by him repeated to the engineer. The hook was in the hands of a workman in the hold, and it was necessary to lower the fall to enable him to attach the hook to a bundle of laths. The order to lower was correctly *343given to…