WOOD (Fred B.), J.
Plaintiff brought this action to recover for a permanent injury to his hand, incurred when he tripped over a steel plate on an unlighted portion of defendant's dock while returning home from his employment as a relief engineer aboard a ship berthed at the dock. The jury awarded him damages in the sum of $16,000, which was reduced to $14,000 by the trial judge, with the consent of plaintiff, as a condition of the denial of defendant's motion for...
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