West Penn Sand & Gravel Co. v. Norton

SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity where the plaintiffs are seeking to set aside a compensation award of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission against the plaintiffs, and in favor of the intervening defendant, Rose Delle Donne, widow of Joseph Delle Donne, on account of the drowning of her husband in the Ohio river while he was at work for the West Penn Sand & Gravel Company on a barge owned by that company, and then afloat on the waters of the Ohio river at Rochester, Pa. Plaintiffs also ask an interlocutory injunction to restrain the collection of that award…