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PETERS v. VEASEY

No. 77.

251 U.S. 121 (1919)

40 S.Ct. 65

64 L.Ed. 180

PETERS ET AL. v. VEASEY, ADMINISTRATRIX OF VEASEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 8, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Janvier, with whom Mr. William C. Dufour, Mr. Gustave Lemle, Mr. A.A. Moreno and Mr. John St. Paul, Jr., were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Walter S. Penfield, Mr. Solomon Wolff, Mr. E.M. Stafford, Mr. F.B. Freeland and Mr. Howell Carter, Jr., for defendant in error, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

In a proceeding under the Workmen's Compensation Law of Louisiana (No. 20, Acts La., 1914), the Supreme Court of that State affirmed a judgment against plaintiffs in error and in favor of Veasey, who claimed to have suffered injuries, August 6, 1915, while employed by Henry and Eugene Peters as a longshoreman on board the "Seria," then lying at New Orleans. The steamer...

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