PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INCORPORATED v. O'HEARNE

No. 9340.

335 F.2d 70 (1964)

PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INCORPORATED, and The Travelers Insurance Company, Appellees, v. Stephen O'HEARNE, Deputy Commissioner, Fifth Compensation District, U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Employees' Compensation, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leavenworth Colby, Atty., Dept. of Justice (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice and Claude V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellant.

John W. Winston, Norfolk, Va. (Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

An award under the Defense Bases Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1651-1654, was made by the Deputy Commissioner to the widow and orphans of Robert M. Smith, an employee of Pan American World Airways, Inc., for his death on San Salvador (Watling) Island in the Bahamas, a British West Indies possession where Columbus first raised land. The fatality resulted when a jeep overturned in which the decedent was riding as a passenger with other employees for recreation...

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