COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE & LABOR v. ROBERT MERWIN & CO.

Civ. No. 24—1963.

252 F.Supp. 637 (1966)

The COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND LABOR ex rel. E. Albert HALLIDAY, Plaintiff, v. ROBERT MERWIN & CO. and Christian Messer, Defendants.

District Court, Virgin Islands. D. St. Croix, at Christiansted.

April 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Brown, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor.

Russell B. Johnson, Christiansted, V. I., for relator, E. Albert Halliday.

Young, Isherwood & Marsh, Christiansted, V. I., John D. Marsh, Christiansted, V. I., of counsel, for defendants.


CLARY, District Judge (sitting by special designation).

E. Albert Halliday, relator, was employed by the Harbor Department of the Government of the Virgin Islands on its dock at Frederiksted as maintenance man and watchman.

On December 7, 1962, at 10 A.M., as he was standing watching the loading of a truck, a longshoreman's trailer being drawn by a small tractor became disengaged from the tractor, struck Halliday from the rear, knocking him to the ground in...

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