Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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DEEVY v. OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD.

(1949) 83 Ll.L.Rep. 146

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

Before Mr. Justice Sellers.

Negligence-Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff stevedore engaged in discharging logs from 'tween decks of defendants' ship-Plaintiff employed as member of gang of four, consisting of signaller, winchman, and two men in 'tween decks -Logs stowed in wings-Method of discharge to pull logs into centre of hatch by means of ship's winch and then to hoist them overside by shore crane- Log wedged by obstruction-Obstruction moved by plaintiff and his mate, both men then retiring out of harm's way into wings-Sudden lurch forward by log, plaintiff being injured-Cause of accident-Alleged negligence of winchman - Whether winch was operated without signal being give and/or before plaintiff had reached a place of safety.

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