North Chesapeake Beach Land & Improvement Co. v. Cochran

Maurice T. Cochran, while engaged in driving piles for the construction of a pier on the property of the North Chesapeake Beach Land and Improvement Company, at North Beach on the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland, was, on October 29th, 1926, “caught in the working cable while he was working with the engine” and severely injured. On the fifteenth of the following July he filed with the State Industrial Accident Commission a claim for compensation against the North Chesapeake Beach Land and Improvement Company and John W. Hayes, as employers. These two respondents' disputed the claim…