Bulman v. Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel Corp.

Action brought under workmen’s compensation act to recover for accidental death was dismissed on the ground that plaintiffs were not dependents at the time of the death. Plaintiffs appealed.

John A. Bulman was in the employ of the Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel Corporation, operating a pump on a boat near Bridgeport, Morrill county, pumping sand and gravel from a pit, or lake, in which the boat was floating. On the night of October 25, 1942, while walking from the boat to *343the shore to get some lacing to repair a belt, he fell off the pipe line into the lake and drowned. The weather was…