NATIONAL CASUALTY CO. v. HOAGE

No. 6170.

73 F.2d 850 (1934)

NATIONAL CASUALTY CO. v. HOAGE, Deputy Com'r (VASS, Intervener).

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 5, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry I. Quinn and Austin F. Canfield, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., J. J. Wilson, H. L. Underwood, Louis O. Hodges, Jr., and Karl Kindleberger, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


GRONER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal under the District of Columbia Compensation Act (Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act [33 USCA § 901 et seq.]; D. C. Code 1929, T. 19, §§ 11, 12 [33 USCA § 901 note]).

Harry Vass, a young colored man, was employed as a janitor in an apartment house in Washington. His duties required him to attend to an incinerator located in the basement of the building. On August 31, 1932, while...

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