Proctor v. United Stevedoring Co.

CHARLES P. CLAIBORNE, JUDGES.

This is a suit for compensation under the employer's ' liability acts by the mother of the injured employee,

Emile Prootor.

The plaintiff alleged that her son, Emile Prootor, was in the employ of the defendant company, loading lumber in a vessel; that while bo employed, her son was accidentally killed on ship board; she prayed for judgment, under the statutes, for $4.50 per week for 300 weeks.

The defense is that Emile Proctor was not killed, but that he died of "Endocarditis" or "heart disease*.

There was judgnent as prayed for, and the defendant has appealed, -…