Westerlund v. Rothschild

Appellants are stevedores and employed respondent, with several others, in loading a vessel with piling. The pile was lifted by a cable with attached hooks, and placed in the hold of the ship, where it was respondent’s work to place it in proper position and, when so placed, to detach the hooks. When the hooks were released and plaintiff had assumed a position of safety, a signal would be given by one *627called a side-runner, to a signalman, who in turn signaled to the engineer in charge of the engine, which was outside of the ship and on a scow, neither it nor the engineer being within sight or…