Flying Tiger Lines, Inc. v. Landy

ELY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, plaintiffs below, sought to set aside and enjoin enforcement of a compensation award made by the Deputy Commissioner. 42 U.S.C. § 1653(b). Their appeal challenges the District Court’s action in granting the Deputy Commissioner’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the suit. Our jurisdiction rests on 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

The controversy originated with the disappearance, on March 16, 1962, of an airplane operated by Flying Tiger Lines, Inc., the plaintiff-employer, and piloted by Gregory Peter Thomas, whose survivors are the codefendants in the action.…