Rick v. Saginaw Bay Towing Co.

This action, which was based upon the Canadian statute hereinafter referred to, is brought to recover damages resulting from causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate by negligence. The decedent was in the employ of the defendant as a wheelsman on board its tug Charleton. The declaration charges that one Brown was acting as mate of the Charleton at the time of the accident, and that Brown ordered the crew,- consisting of the deck hands and decedent, who was wheelsman, to throw over the staging and scrape the outside of the tug. The staging or scaffold upon which this work was to be performed…