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Kobilkin v. Pillsbury, Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al., 1940 — 309 U.S. 619 · caselaw · US
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Kobilkin v. Pillsbury, Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.
309 U.S. 61984 L. Ed. 983·Supreme Court of the United States·1940
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Opinion
No. 204.
Kobilkin v. Pillsbury, Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.
Argued January 8, 9, 1940.
Decided January 29, 1940.
Mr. George G. Olshausen submitted for petitioner.
Mr. Telford Taylor, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Shea, and Messrs. Aaron 'B. Holman and Richard H. Demuth were on the brief, for Pillsbury, Deputy Commissioner (the brief being also on behalf of the Compensation Commission, as amicus curiae); and Mr. M. B. Plant, with whom Messrs. Herman Phleger, Maurice E. Harrison, and Gregory A. Harrison were on the brief, for Matson Navigation Co:,— respondents.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam:]
Per Curiam:
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.