Mullan v. Philadelphia & Southern Mail Steamship Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1873, No. 173. This was an aotion on the ease, brought April 28th 1871, by Samuel -Mullan against the Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company. The plaintiff was one of a gang of men employed by a stevedore engaged by the defendants, to unload one of their vessels lying at a wharf in Philadelphia, on the river Delaware.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1873, No. 173. This was an aotion on the ease, brought April 28th 1871, by Samuel -Mullan against the Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company. The plaintiff was one of a gang of men employed by a stevedore engaged by the defendants, to unload one of their vessels lying at a wharf in Philadelphia, on the river Delaware. Whilst raising two tierces of rice by a rope, the rope which had been spliced, parted at the splice. One of the tierces fell into the hold of the vessel where the plaintiff was at work, rolled upon his arm,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
The accident resulting in the injury of which the plaintiff complains, occurred while he was employed as one of a gang of stevedores in unloading the steamship Wyoming, belonging to the defendants. In hoisting two tierces of rice out of the hold of the vessel, the 'rope the workmen were using parted, and the casks fell on the plaintiff. The hands employed were under the charge of John Corcoran, the chief stevedore. He engaged and discharged them at his pleasure. He had charge also of the machinery used in unloading the ship. The rope, where it parted, had been spliced; it was used, as the…
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