Green v. Simpson & Brown Construction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Oliphant, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the petitioner is the alleged common-law wife of the deceased.

Respondent was the owner of a dredge having its own motive power which was tied up at a dock of the Sun Oil Company on the Passaic River in Newark. The Passaic River is a navigable stream. At the time of the decedent’s disappearance he was the dredge watchman whose duties included “getting the boilers going, getting steam up or banking the fires and keeping the pressure alive, and things of that nature” and “getting rid of the bilge.”