YEAGER v. HECKMAN

Civ. A. No. 18166.

158 F.Supp. 933 (1957)

Marion YEAGER, Adm'x of the Estate of William J. West, Jr., v. John B. HECKMAN and Clifton P. Ludwig.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 22, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Speicher, Speicher & Austin, Reading, for plaintiff.

John J. McDevitt, III, Joseph R. Ritchie, Jr., of Ambler, Detweiler & Walsh, Philadelphia, Pa., for Utilities Mut. Ins. Co., workmen's compensation insurance carrier.


GANEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff's petition for an order of distribution of a fund resulting from a compromise settlement poses the question whether an employer's insurance carrier must also pay a proportionate attorney's fee on the difference between the sum which it agreed to pay under the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act and the amount which it actually paid.1

On November 20, 1954, William J. West, Jr., while he was in...

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