Legal Opinion
London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 8, 1929No. 491PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This proceeding was begun by a petition to the Industrial Accident Commission of California to obtain an award for the déath of John James Uttley Brooke, an unmarried minor nineteen years of age, who was drowned in Santa Monica Bay on April 8, 1926, while in the service of the Morris Pleasure Fishing, Inc. The appellant was the insurance carrier of the employer, and the question presented in this appeal is whether the case was for the exclusive cognizance of a court of admiralty under § 256 of the Judicial Code, or might be brought within the purview of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of…
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