Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. v. Norton

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Emil Bruno Gube, an employee of the Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Company, on descending from a boat of this company, then in navigable waters of the United States, fell and sustained an injury- to- his left arm. He instituted proceedings against his employer for compensation under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, approved March 4, 1927, 44 Stat. 1424 (33 USCA §§ 901-950). The Maryland Casualty Company was joined as insurance carrier for the Steamboat Company.

At a hearing before the Deputy Commissioner for the proper Compensation District it…