SHOWERS v. CROWELL

No. 376.

46 F.2d 361 (1930)

SHOWERS v. CROWELL, Deputy Com'r, United States Employees' Compensation Commission.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

June 5, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Griffin T. Hawkins, of Lake Charles, La., for complainant.

Pujo, Bell & Hardin, of Lake Charles, La., and J. Fair Hardin, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Shreveport, La., for respondent.

Thompson & Ferguson, of Leesville, La., for interveners.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner, vacating an order allowing the complainant compensation under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act of March 4, 1927 (33 USCA § 901-950).

As I conceive the meaning of the provision for review of a decision of the Commissioner in cases of this kind, it amounts to the same thing as the power of review at common law in cases of appeal from the verdict of a...

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