Burns Steamship Co. v. Pillsbury

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment confirming an award by appellee Pillsbury to the widow of John A. Anderson under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq., for the death of her husband, a stevedore employee of appellant Burns Steamship Company, killed on November 29, 1947, by the falling of a slingload of coal being loaded aboard the steamship Daisy Gray.

Appellants seek to set aside the award on the ground that Pillsbury erred in finding that the death arose from an accident “arising out of or in the course of employment,” as that…