GRIFFITHS & SPRAGUE STEVEDORING CO. v. MARSHALL

No. 758.

56 F.2d 665 (1930)

GRIFFITHS & SPRAGUE STEVEDORING CO. v. MARSHALL, Deputy Com'r, et al.

District Court, W. D. Washington, N. D.

October 13, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen V. Carey, of Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff.

Anthony Savage, U. S. Atty., and Jeffrey Heiman, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Seattle, Wash., for defendant Marshall.

J. W. Hoar and H. Sylvester Garvin, both of Seattle, Wash., for defendants Patton, Hoar, and Garvin.

John Ambler, of Seattle, Wash., for Waterfront Employers of Seattle, who were allowed to intervene as amicus curiæ.


RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a proceeding to review an order of a deputy commissioner allowing compensation for the death of an employee, under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 USCA § 901 et seq. Section 903 (b) of the act provides that no compensation shall be payable if the injury was occasioned solely by the intoxication of the employee, or by the willful intention of the employee to injure or kill himself or another. The deputy...

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