Robinson v. Ocean Steamship Co. of Savannah
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah, Georgia, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 25th day of February, 1914, sustaining a demurrer to a separate defense pleaded in the answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The action by an employee against his employer is for damages for negligence, the charge being that defendant had permitted the deck of a steamship, upon which plaintiff was working as a stevedore, to be wet and slippery. The accident happened in April, 1912. In the defense demurred to the defendant pleads: “ Upon information and belief, that any injuries which the said Joseph Robinson may have sustained at the time and place mentioned in the complaint, were caused by his own carelessness and negligence and in no way by negligence on the part of this defendant.” This was coupled…
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