Clark v. Cahill Bros.

Plaintiff brought this action under the admiralty jurisdiction of the superior court to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained when he slipped and fell on a landing or float, owned and maintained by defendants, after he had disembarked from a tug operated by defendants which had transported him from Vallejo to Mare Island, where he was employed by defendants as a pile driver in the construction of a wharf or pier. The trial court granted defendants’ motion for nonsuit on the ground that the Industrial Accident Commission had sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the case;…