Williams v. Wood

Louis Williams of Evart, Michigan, plaintiff, was engaged to work about the cabins and to act as a fisherman’s guide by his fellow townsman, Spencer Postal, at the latter’s fishing and hunting camp located in the vicinity of a number of small lakes in northern Ontario, not far from the Canadian Soo. Plaintiff was 21 years of age, six feet four inches in height. Fishermen who went to Postal’s camp employed and paid the guides furnished them. On June 11,1930, defendant, Prank P. Wood, and a companion, both experienced fisher men, employed plaintiff to guide and row a boat near the shore of…