Henry Gillen's Sons Lighterage, Inc. v. Fernald
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to tl\e District Court of the Unitcd'States for the Southern District of New York. Action by John E. Fernald against Henry Gillen’s Sons Lighterage, Incorporated. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Writ of error to a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York for $3,032.35, entered after a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff below. The parties will be referred to as aligned below.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, Circuit Judge.
The action was to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, a deckhand, while employed on the lighter Henry Gillen, owned by defendant. The lighter was being loaded with copper bars, and, to accomplish this, a boom attached to a mast was used to hoist the drafts of copper bars from the dock to the lighter. In each draft, there were from 10 to 15 bars, weighing 175 to 200 pounds apiece. To protect the deck, a false deck or sheathing of boards had been placed over the permanent deck of the lighter, forward of the pilot house or cabin.
When the drafts of.…
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