GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE INS. CORP. v. DONOVAN

No. 14022.

251 F.2d 915 (1958)

GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Limited, et al., Appellants, v. P. J. DONOVAN, Deputy Commissioner, District of Columbia Compensation District, Bureau of Employees' Compensation and L. B. Bedney, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1958.

Reconsideration Denied March 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Beck, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Ward E. Boote, Asst. Sol., U. S. Dept. of Labor, with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Herbert P. Miller, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, were on the brief, for appellee Donovan.

Mr. Everett L. Edmond, Washingon, D. C., for appellee Bedney.

Before DANAHER, BASTIAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


Reconsideration Denied March 28, 1958. See 251 F.2d 961.

PER CURIAM.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 44 Stat. 1424, 33 U.S. C.A. § 901 et seq., as made applicable to the District of Columbia, D.C.Code § 36-501 (1951), appellants were ordered to pay compensation to the appellee Bedney. Following cross motions for summary judgment, the District Court dismissed...

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