Dunnaway v. Stone & Webster Engineering Co.

This is an action brought under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by the parents of a minor son to recover compensation for his death.

The facts are that Orville Dunnaway, now deceased, age nineteen (19), was employed by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation and, at the time of the occurrence of his death, he was assigned to duty on one of the employer’s barges being used in the construction of the Bagnell Dam in Miller County, Missouri. The labor being performed by deceased on the day he met his death was that of boiler washing.

The work was being done on the employer’s barge and the deceased…