WESTERN FUEL CO. v. GARCIA

No. 28.

257 U.S. 233 (1921)

42 S.Ct. 89

66 L.Ed. 210

WESTERN FUEL COMPANY v. GARCIA, ADMINISTRATOR OF SOUZA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 5, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph F. Murray, with whom Mr. Robert M. McCormick was on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Henry Heidelberg, with whom Mr. Christopher M. Bradley was on the briefs, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Circuit Court of Appeals certified certain questions for instruction and thereafter we directed that the cause be sent here for determination as if upon appeal. Judicial Code, § 239.

Manuel Souza, a citizen and resident of California, was instantly killed, August 5, 1916, while employed as a stevedore by the petitioner and at work in the hold of the...

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