Ciaramitaro's Case

The undisputed facts are these: The employer, engaged in the business of selling live crabs and crab meat, secured its crabs by means of traps sunk in the water in and around Boston Harbor. In winter traps were set as far as a mile or a mile and a half beyond Boston Light. Attached to the traps as sunk in the water inside the harbor were cables of ten or twelve fathoms, and outside the harbor cables of twenty to twenty-two fathoms. The contents of the traps were collected by the employer by the use of its own boats. The same crew went inside and outside the harbor for this purpose. It was…