Terminal Shipping Co. v. Traynor

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

The employer and its insurance carrier challenge a compensation award to the widow of Michael Connelly under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq.

The Deputy Commissioner found that on 27 January 1961, while Connelly was engaged as a longshoreman unloading a vessel which was afloat in the Patapsco River, he sustained an injury, a cerebral hemorrhage, precipitated by strenuous effort. An award for temporary total disability was made, and compensation was paid thereunder until Connelly’s death by suicide on 7 September 1963. After…