BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT CO. v. NORTON

No. 5043.

40 F.2d 530 (1930)

BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT CO. et al. v. NORTON et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 28, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Calvin S. Boyer, U. S. Atty., of Doylestown, Pa., for Deputy Commissioner.

G. C. Krewson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Gube.


DICKINSON, District Judge.

This case arises under the act of Congress extending the principle of injured workmen's compensation to those in longshoremen's employment. 33 USCA §§ 901-950. These laws have two main objectives. One is to provide a prompt, speedy, simple, and inexpensive method of adjusting compensation; the other to preserve to every one affected by the award made all his legal rights. To reach the first objective in the practical working of...

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