Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. v. Neuman

448 F.2d 773

Type: Opinion
Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 1971-09-15
Topic: employee-benefits-and-executive-compensation

PER CURIAM: This appeal is taken from an order of the district court, 322 F.Supp. 1229, denying a petition to enjoin an award by *774the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission under the provisions of the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq. The deputy commissioner, after an evidentiary hearing, found, inter alia,, that the children of the decedent Patrick Wright were acknowledged illegitimate children dependent upon the deceased within the meaning of 33 U.S.C.A. § 902(14) and therefore entitled to receive death benefits. We agree with the district court that there was substantial evidence on the record as a whole to support this finding, and that the award was otherwise in accordance with law. Affirmed.

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INGALLS SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION v. NEUMAN,448 F.2d 773(5th Cir. 1971)

INGALLS SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION and American Mutual Liability Insurance

Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Raymond E. NEUMAN, Deputy Commissioner

United States Employees Compensation Commission, Seventh District,

Defendant-Appellee, and Luieda Belton, Intervenor.

No. 71-1490 Summary Calendar.^fn*

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 15, 1971.

William M. Rainey, White Morse, Eldon L. Bolton, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U.S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Lorant, Bouloukos Kopelousos, Jerry O. Lorant, Birmingham, Ala., Eaton A. Lang, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., Morton Hollander, Thomas J. Press., Attys., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Kathryn H. Baldwin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH, and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal is taken from an order of the district court,322 F. Supp. 1229, denying a petition to enjoin an award byPage 774the United States Employees' Compensation Commission under the provisions of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act,33 U.S.C.A. § 901et seq.

The deputy commissioner, after an evidentiary hearing, found,inter alia,that the children of the decedent Patrick Wright were acknowledged illegitimate children dependent upon the deceased within the meaning of33 U.S.C.A. § 902(14) and therefore entitled to receive death benefits. We agree with the district court that there was substantial evidence on the record as a whole to support this finding, and that the award was otherwise in accordance with law.

Affirmed.Page 775

Rule 18, 5 Cir., Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Company of New York et al., 5 Cir., 1970,431 F.2d 409, Part I. ↩