Woodworth

An application filed by the petitioner herein, a minor, by his guardian ad litem, with the Industrial Accident Commission, claiming compensation for injuries alleged to have been sustained while employed upon an improvised craft which loaded and unloaded passengers and fishing supplies to and from a launch which plied between said craft and an anchored pleasure boat, was rejected by the said Commission upon the ground that it was without jurisdiction of the cause. The petitioner thereupon filed an application for review of such decision.

It appeared that the respondent corporation and said William F. Storey maintained at a distance of about two and one-eighth miles from the shore of the Pacific Ocean a fishing barge, which was anchored, and to which the public were invited. Certain charges were made for the privileges of said barge, which included transportation thereto and return. Patrons were carried to the barge from a point about six hundred feet from the shore by a small launch. Between the points last mentioned said respondents placed a steel cable to which, the parties have stipulated, “was engaged a float approximately twenty feet square, constructed of empty drums or…