Anderson v. The Ravensdale
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel to recover damages for personal injuries, filed by Saverin A. Anderson against the steamer Ravensdale and Roberts Bros., stevedores, who were loading said steamer.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
On the 16th of February, 1891, while the lighter Georgia Pine was lying alongside the steamer Ravens-dale, at the Atlantic basin, and delivering a cargo of boards to the steamer, the libelant, who was captain of the lighter, and was assisting a gang of men employed by Roberts Bros., stevedores, in hoisting the boards upon the steamer, was severely injured by the fall of a part of one of the drafts, just before it was hauled over the steamer’s rail. One of the vertibrae of his back was dislocated, causing incurable paralysis of both the lower limbs. The above *625libel was…
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