Breslin v. Sparks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff^ Daniel Breslin, from-a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of October, 1903, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff was a longshoreman in the employ of Emery & Price, and on the day of the accident was engaged with others in transferring reels of barbed wire from a lighter to the bark Meta, lying at pier 12, East river. It appears that the lighter was much lower than the vessel which was being loaded, so that it was out of sight of those upon the dock. An apparatus had been rigged up to the masts on the vessel for suspending block and tackle, and a rope extended through the 'pulleys in such a Way that one end of the same dropped down upon the lighter, while the other crossed over…
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