Greco v. Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab

BYERS, District Judge.

These causes were consolidated for tho purpose of trial, and involve the personal injuries suffered by the respective libelants on February 5,1932.

They were stevedores employed by Brady & Gioe, Inc., and had been for many years. At about 9:00 o’clock on that morning, they formed part of a group of about thirty men standing on tho Faber Line pier at the foot of 31st Street, Brooklyn, waiting for the Norwegian Motorship Estrella to dock on the south side, bow in.

Tho men crowded out on the string-piece as the docking was being accomplished; the ship was breasted off a…