Maryland Casualty Co. v. Grant

1. Where a corporation engaged in the business of canning sea-food and owning fishing boats pursued the policy of equipping the boats with fishing nets, ice, gas, and oil, and turning the boats over to persons called “captains,»” and where the captains, under contract with that corporation, went out on fishing expeditions in navigable waters near the shore, each with the assistance of another person called a helper, employed and paid by the captain, and caught shrimp and prawn which were brought back in the boat to the plant of the canning company and were there delivered to the employees of…