MacDonald v. Riverside & Fort Lee Ferry Co.

Upon carefully considering the entire evidence in this case, I find and determine as follows:

That the petitioner’s decedent, John Muir, was regularly employed by the respondent as a dock tender at its Edgewater ferry house, Edgewater, TSTew Jersey, and that the said employment was subject to article II of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. It has been definitely adjudicated that the locality "test governs in determining whether the Maritime law or the Workmen’s Compensation law controls, and that when it appears that an accident occurred on land, and not upon a ship, and the state has provided a…