Shaughnessy v. Northland Steamship Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered October 28, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in. an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee engaged in unloading a steamship.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, J. —
The plaintiff, Shaughnessy, commenced this action in the superior court for King county, .seeking recovery *327of damages for personal injuries claimed by him to have resulted from the negligence of the defendant steamship company while he was working for that company in the hold of its steamship Alki assisting in its unloading, while it was lying in the navigable waters of Puget Sound alongside a wharf in the city of Anacortes. The trial resulted in verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, awarding him $3,500 damages, from which the defendant has appealed to this court.
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