White v. Wells Bros.

The plaintiff seeks to recover from his employer for personal injuries received by him while moving a large stone from a platform to a wagon in the Huntington Avenue freight yards. For ten or twelve days before the accident he had been engaged in the work of unloading stone blocks from freight ears and moving them into wagons, under the general direction of one Wilson, who was a superintendent of the defendant. These stones were handled either by derricks, of which there were two, or by means of a longshoreman’s truck, the blade of which was about a foot wide and wrapped in burlap.

The…