MARYLAND CASUALTY CO. v. CARDILLO

No. 7084.

99 F.2d 432 (1938)

MARYLAND CASUALTY CO. v. CARDILLO, Deputy Com'r, United States Employees Compensation Commission.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 19, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin A. Swingle and Earnest A. Swingle, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Ernest F. Coleman, David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., Allen J. Krouse, Asst. U. S. Atty., Z. Lewis Dalby, Charles T. Branham, and William A. Powell, all of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MILLER, EDGERTON, and VINSON, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This case involves the validity of an award of compensation1 to the widow and minor child of a deceased employee. Jennings, an assistant cook in a restaurant, was killed with a meat cleaver by Steadman, a bus-boy. No one else was present. Steadman ran away and hid, but was taken and tried for murder. He pleaded self-defense and was acquitted. On June 30, 1936, the deputy commissioner made an order denying compensation...

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