Healy v. Carter & Weekes Stevedoring Co.

Merrell, J.:

The action was brought by the plaintiff, a longshoreman, to recover at common law damages which he alleges he sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendant. The defendant was a stevedoring company engaged in the business of loading and unloading vessels at the various piers about New York city. Plaintiff received personal injuries at an early morning hour on March 4, 1921, while engaged as an employee of the defendant as a longshoreman in loading a cargo of apples upon the steamship Algeria moored at pier 64 on the North river. The injuries which the plaintiff received…