Petersen v. Klitgaard

This appeal was taken from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Naknek Packing Company, a corporation, in the sum of $15,000 on account of personal injuries sustained April 25, 1927, by plaintiff by falling through a hatchway of appellant’s steamship “Hyades”, as the result of appellant’s alleged negligence, while he was employed as a stevedore in loading said steamship as she was docked in the San Francisco harbor making ready to engage in the fish cannery enterprise conducted in Alaska by said company. The other defendant, C. F.…