DUNHAM TOWING & WRECKING CO. v. BASSETT

No. 35.

36 F.Supp. 527 (1940)

DUNHAM TOWING & WRECKING CO. v. BASSETT, Deputy Commissioner of United States Employees' Compensation Commission.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 17, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kremer, Branand & Hayes, of Chicago, Ill., for libellant.

George A. Chritton, of Chicago, Ill., and S. Eldridge Sampliner, of Cleveland, Ohio, for claimant and intervener Aksel Monson.

Paul Levin, U. S. Atty., of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.


HOLLY, District Judge.

There is no dispute in this case as to the facts. The question presented by the libel herein is whether, upon the undisputed evidence, Aksel Monson, the intervener, was at the time of the injury for which he seeks recovery under the terms of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. Ch. 18, § 901 et seq., a member of the crew of the tugboat upon which he was working. It appears from the evidence that his principal...

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