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ATLAS IRON AND METAL COMPANY v. HESSER

Nos. 33517, 33536, 33526.

177 So.2d 199 (1965)

ATLAS IRON AND METAL COMPANY, Inc., et al., Petitioners, v. Harold HESSER et al., Respondents. SOUTHEASTERN TOWING AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. Harold HESSER et al., Respondents. SHIPS AND POWERS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. Harold HESSER et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin H. Underwood, Jr., Miami, Wakefield & Underwood, Miami, for Atlas Iron & Metal Co., Inc. and Bituminous Casualty Corp.

Blackwell, Walker & Gray and Clemen J. Ehrlich, Miami, for Southeastern Towing & Transportation Co. and its carrier, Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Welsh, Cornell, Pyszka & Carlton, Miami, for Ships & Powers, Inc., and Security Ins. Co. of New York.

Ira J. Druckman, of Schroll & Druckman, Miami, for Harold Hesser.

Lally, Miller & Hodges, Miami, for Atlas Ship Conversion Co. and Travelers Ins. Co.

Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for Florida Industrial Commission

CALDWELL, Justice.

This cause is before us on three petitions for writ of certiorari to review an order of the Florida Industrial Commission which reversed the order of the deputy commissioner.

The deputy found claimant suffered an accident while on board a ship, a naval landing craft, which was being converted to a barge and which, at the time, was "afloat on navigable waters."

Although the identity of the employer was not determined, the carrier...

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