Eastern Transportation Co. v. Johnson

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Eastern Transportation Company was the owner of a certain steam tug which operated in and about the harbor of Norfolk. The propeller of the tug, on June 7, 1913, became entangled in a hawser or some other foreign matter, which prevented it from revolving, and thereupon the transportation company employed John A. Johnson, a marine diver, to disentangle the propeller from the hawser or other obstruction. He entered upon the discharge of the duty he had assumed and found it necessary to cut the hawser, and as soon as that was done the propeller…