HOLLAND v. HAY'S WHARF, LTD.

(1941) 70 Ll L Rep 310

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Hilbery.

Negligence-Unloading of vessel-Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff stevedore engaged in unlading box-boards from hold of steamship overside into barge-Fall of bundle from scale-board - Plaintiff's claim for common law damages against his employers-Plea that defendants (1) had failed to employ a competent hatchwayman; (2) had failed to provide a reasonably safe system of working- Evidence that, the barge not being alongside, the hatchwayman permitted a loaded set to be placed on deck; that he negligently refixed the chains of the scale-board when it was rehoisted; and that by reason thereof the scale-board tilted, causing a bundle to fall on the plaintiff in the ship's hold-System of unloading in force-When lowering of sets on deck permissible.