Maryland Casualty Co. v. Gerlaske

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

When, on February 28, 1929, Steve Ger-laske, a diver, was drawn up out of deep water where he had been submerged for a considerable time setting piling, he was found to he, as the result of a profound shock sustained in the course of the work he was doing, in a highly critical condition. He never recovered from this shock, and, after a few months helpless lingering, he died from it. Before he died, he filed with the Industrial Accident Board on the forms they provided, a notice to John Jacobson, his employer, and the Maryland Casualty Company, with whom Jacobson was…