Williams v. Lawson

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree disallowing the claim of the appellant, under the Longshore*347men’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation* Act (33 USCA § 991 et seq.), for compensation for the death of her deceased husband, Isaac Williams, a stevedore, who died on August 2, 1927, as a result of injuries received in the course of his employment while at work in the hold of a vessel upon the navigable waters of the United States. That decree adjudged that the appellee Independence Indemnity Company, the insurance carrier, pay to the Treasury of the United States $1,009, as…