Case regarding the compensation for vessel damages

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Healy v. Carter Weekes Stevedoring Co.

May 29, 1925.

Appeal from Supreme Court of New York County. 

Jeremiah F. Connor, for the appellant.

Jeremiah A. O'Leary, for the respondent.

MERRELL, J.:

The action was brought by the plaintiff, a longshoreman, to recover at common law damages which he alleges he sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendant. The defendant was a stevedoring company engaged in the business of loading and unloading vessels at the various piers about New