Lundgren v. Pacific Coast Steamship Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Jurey, J., entered September 15, 1917, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in loading a ship.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
— Lundgren was a sailor employed by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company on its ship the “Bavelli,” moored at the dock at Seattle. He was a member of what is known as the “hold-gang” at the time when the alleged cause of injury accrued. The duty of that gang at the time was to receive certain iron rods or shafting as they were unloaded from the dock to the ship and to stow them in the hold. These *82rods, or shafting, were four inches in diameter and about fifteen feet in length. They were swung from the dock into the hold by means of a sling, an appliance consisting of a common five-eighth’s…
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