Alaska Steamship Co. v. Pacific Coast Gypsum Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered November 13, 1911, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action for contribution.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The Alaska Steamship Company brought this action in the superior court for Pierce county, to recover over the sums it was required to pay in settlement of damages for personal injuries resulting to two longshoremen, its employees, from a defective hoisting appliance be*360longing to the defendant and used in unloading gypsum rock from one of the plaintiff’s ships at the defendant’s wharf and plant in Tacoma. The cause proceeded to trial before the court and a jury, when at the close of the evidence introduced in behalf of plaintiff, counsel for the defendant moved the court as follows:
“The…
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