The Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo May 6, 1895 (Moy v. Ocean Steamship Co.)

McADAM, J.

The action is under the statute to recover damages for the death of one Patrick Moy, an employé of the defendant. It appears that the decedent was on August 13, 1894, at work in one of the lower holds of the steamship City of Augusta, and that a barrel which was being lowered into the hold of the vessel fell *564from the sling in which it was held, and struck him while he, for some