Nephew v. Whitehead

The plaintiff is 29 years old. He has sailed the lakes for 15 seasons, 5 or'6 of which he was wheelman on different steamboats. He entered into the employ of Mr. Whitehead. He testified he considered he was employed to operate a derrick in moving and handling iron beams, and that before that he had handled heavy stuff with derricks, ropes, rollers, and blocks. He was directed, to help other men place iron beams on trucks to be conveyed to the waterworks park in Detroit, and did so. He then went to the park, and was injured while engaged-in. unloading the beams which had been brought from…