Garstka v. Republic Steel Corp.

About daybreak on the morning of October 28,1936, Walter Garstka was working on tlie wharfs of the Republic Steel Corporation along the west bank of Cuyahoga river at Cleveland, Ohio. G-arstka was a sailor, having able-bodied seaman papers, with the rating of wheelsman and watchman. He was a member of the crew of the Liberty, a ship owned by the Nicholson Transit Company. The Liberty was moored to the wharf while being loaded with steel by the employees of the Republic Steel Corporation. Along the west bank of the river, and parallel to it, were four lines of railroad track. On the track…