BROWN-PACIFIC-MAXON v. O'LEARY

No. 12366.

182 F.2d 772 (1950)

BROWN-PACIFIC-MAXON, Inc., et al. v. O'LEARY.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 26, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Edw. S. Franklin, Seattle, Wash., for appellants.

J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Attorney, John E. Belcher and Vaughn Evans, Asst. U. S. Attys., Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and ORR, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment confirming a compensation award against appellant employer and its insurance carrier for the death of one John Valak made under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq., hereinafter called the Act. Valak was drowned in an attempt to rescue an unknown person from a reef off the Coast of Guam. The ground of the appeal here is that the attempt to rescue the distressed unknown was...

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