DUNN v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO.


391 Pa. 65 (1958)

Dunn v. Atlantic Refining Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. McDevitt, 3rd, for appellant.

George E. Beechwood, with him Joseph J. Murphy, and Beechwood, Lovitt and Murphy, for appellee.

William C. Thompson, with him Thompson & Daly, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO, JONES and COHEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, January 6, 1958:

On December 17, 1953, Alfred H. Dunn, with three others of a four-man stevedore team, was engaged in an operation which hoisted steel drums, by means of a mechanical winch, from the Atlantic Refining Company pier in the Philadelphia harbor up to the deck and into the hold of a steamship bearing the poetical and melodious name of "Robin Goodfellow." While six of these drums, or steel barrels, were aloft, at the height...

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