Plaintiff, a longshoreman, was seriously injured while discharging a cargo of coffee beans from defendant's vessel. During the unloading operation, numerous bags of beans, each weighing between 120 and 140 pounds, fell upon plaintiff from an upper tier in the cargo hold. The sworn deposition testimony of plaintiff alleged that the sacks of beans had been improperly stowed and covered over with properly stowed bags so as to camouflage the haphazard loading of the ship in West...
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