Cornec v. Baltimore & O. R.

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

The question in this case is as to the liability for an explosion which occurred on the French barque Richelieu while lying at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company’s coal piers, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, on the late *963afternoon of January 4,1927, while she was being loaded with a cargo of pitch. As a result of the explosion a fire was propagated throughout the ’tween-decks and lower hold of the vessel, resulting in the death of seven stevedores, engaged at the time in trimming the cargo, and in very severe injury to a number of other stevedores and members of…