Schotis v. North Coast Stevedoring Co.

This action was brought by Albert Schotis, a longshoreman, against North Coast Steve-doring Company, a Washington corporation, and Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., a Japanese corporation, to recover for injuries sustained by him in a fall through a hatch of the Japanese steamship “Atlantic Maru” on November 22,1926, while she was lying at a dock at Seattle. The steamship was owned and operated by the Japanese corporation, and was officered and manned by persons of the Japanese race. Schotis Was an employee of the stevedoring company and was one of a gang of longshoremen engaged in unloading cargo…