Claim of Pope v. Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Merritt & Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Company and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, made on the 15th day of September, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
John Pope, the husband of the claimant, was working for his employer in laying water pipes under the Narrows in New York harbor between Brooklyn and Staten Island. A trestle had been built from the Staten Island shore about one hundred feet into the water under which the employer was excavating at a depth of about fifty feet a trench in which the pipes were to be laid: About seventy-five feet from the end of the trestle a floating derrick was stationed. From this derrick divers went down into the water to perform the necessary work. It was Pope’s duty to attend one of the divers…
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