Compton v. Crown Zellerbach Corp.

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a summary judgment rejecting their demands. The plaintiffs, Mrs. Margie Thompson Compton, surviving spouse, and the heirs of Arthur C. Compton, filed a death action against The Travelers Insurance Company, the workmen’s compensation insurer of, and Babcock and Wilcox Company, Crown Zellerbach Corporation and Kenneth W. Doyle. The death action is grounded on the facts that during the course and scope of the employment of Arthur C. Compton, by Babcock and Wilcox Company, the deceased was accidently killed on the premises of Crown…