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SHANNON v. COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE CORPORATION

302 A.2d 582 (1973)

Alberta SHANNON (Widow of John W. Shannon) v. COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE CORPORATION and Aetna Life & Casualty Company.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 30, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley, Thaxter & Keddy by Thomas Schulten, James R. Flaker, Portland, for plaintiff.

Mahoney, Robinson, Mahoney & Norman by Lawrence P. Mahoney, Robert F. Hanson, Portland, for defendants.

Before DuFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE, POMEROY, WERNICK and ARCHIBALD, JJ.

WERNICK, Justice.

On July 1, 1970 Alberta Shannon petitioned the Maine Industrial Accident Commission to make an award of compensation to her as widow of John W. Shannon.

Mr. Shannon, while in the employ of Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), had been killed on April 9, 1970 in an automobile collision in the Kingdom of Thailand. For present purposes, without deciding, we may assume that Mr. Shannon's death resulted, within the meaning of the Maine...

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