Martinson v. State Industrial Accident Commission

The plaintiff, Bud Martinson, was hired on February 20, 1934, by Meyers Contract Company to assist in loading machinery on a barge moored to a wharf on the Willamette river in Portland, Oregon. That company was engaged in general contracting business and had rented from the Diesel Towing Company the barge in question to transport its machinery and equipment from Portland to the Bonneville dam on the Columbia river, and engaged the Diesel Towing Company to tow the barge to the dam site. The barge, of approximately one hundred tons capacity, had prior to that time been used by the Diesel Towing…