Ocean Steamship Co. v. Cheeney

Lumpkin, Justice.

This case has twice already been before this court. On the first trial in the city court, there was a verdict for the plaintiff, and this court reversed a judgment refusing to grant a new trial. 86 Ga. 278. It appeared from the evidence then before this court, that'a hatch-tender had been stationed at the hatchway for the purpose of warning the persons in the hold below, engaged in stor- . ing the cotton with which the ship was being loaded, to stand aside when abale was about to he thrown down, and that the plaintiff was injured by a bale of cotton of the throwing down of…