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LIABILITY ASSURANCE CO. v. COOK

No. 81.

281 U.S. 233 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 308

74 L.Ed. 823

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LIMITED v. COOK ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Wm. A. Vinson and Clyde A. Sweeton submitted for petitioner.

Mr. Sam C. Polk, with whom Messrs. D.A. Simmons and Ira J. Allen were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In January, 1927, while regularly employed by the Ford Motor Company and "open for any kind of work" Hal Cook was instructed as "a part of his contract of employment to assist in unloading cargo off" the steamship Lake Gorian, lately arrived at Houston, Texas, from the high seas and then tied up at the dock. While at work in the hold of the vessel he received serious...

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