Nance v. United Fruit Co.

■ Plaintiff, the widow of a former employee of defendant, seeks to recover compensation fpr his death, claiming that he was killed by an accident arising out of and in the' course of his employment.

The facts, which are in the main admitted, are: That the decedent was a member of the “shore gang” of defendant, which gang at that time was composed of himself and three other laborers and a foreman, a Mr. Whatley; that the “shore gang” had moved a large pump along the wharf to a spot alongside the steamship Cartago, belonging to defendant; that the pump was to be placed upon the Cartago, but was…