Maryland Casualty Co. v. Cardillo

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This case involves the validity of an award of compensation 1 to the widow and minor child of a deceased employee. Jennings, an assistant cook in a restaurant, was killed with a meat cleaver by Stead-man, a bus-boy. No one else was present. Steadman ran away and hid, but was taken and tried for murder. He pleaded self-defense and was acquitted. On June 30, 1936, the deputy commissioner made an order denying compensation, on the statutory ground that the death of Jenrlings resulted from his willful intent to injure another. On July 28, 1936, he vacated this order.…