Atlas Dredging Co. v. Mitchell

This is a suit by Susie V. Mitchell against the Atlas Dredging Company, a corporation, for damages for the death of her son Joseph Mitchell, who was drownded or otherwise asphyxiated in a diving suit, while attempting to perform services for the defendant.

The declaration alleges that the services of Joseph Mitchell were engaged by the defendant, the Atlas Dredging Company, as a diver in an undertaking that was extremely hazardous and dangerous, and that defendant agreed as part consideration for such services, that it would furnish the diving suit for use by said Mitchell, but negligently and…