Anderson v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey

Carswell, J.:

The action is by an administrator to recover for the death of one Doland, his intestate. Doland received injuries while working on board a vessel in the Hudson river as an employee of the defendant Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company. That company had a contract to repair the vessel upon which Doland, as its employee, was injured February 10, 1923, in the course of making the repairs. Doland was taken from the vessel to a hospital in New Jersey where he died two days after the accident, February 12, 1923. Under the general maritime law no recovery may be had for a death upon…