Gorham v. Cunard S. S. Co.
District Court, D. Maine
In Admiralty. Suit by Patrick F. Gorham against the Cunard Steamship Company, Limited.
1Opinion of the Court
HADE, District Judge.
The libelant brings this suit for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him on January 4, 1918, while engaged as a stevedore i,n the service of Randall & McAllister, coal dealers, in loading bunker coal into the respondent’s steamer As-cania, while lying at the dock alongside the Grand Trunk wharf in Portland Harbor. He says that his duties required him to guide heavy tubs of coal from the side of the ship to the hatchway; that the respondent was under the duty of exercising reasonable care in providing a safe place for him to work, and that this included the…
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