Opinion
No. 3586.
April 3, 1934.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, in Equity; W. Calvin Chesnut, Judge.
Petition by David E. Wilson against Chester F. Hockley and another, receivers of the Davison Chemical Company. From a decree for petitioner ( 4 F. Supp. 294), defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Wilson K. Barnes and G. Ridgely Sappington, both of Baltimore, Md., for appellants.
Rowland K. Adams, of Baltimore, Md. (O. Bowie Duckett, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellee.
Before PARKER and SOPER, Circuit Judges, and BAKER, District Judge.
For the reasons given in the opinion of Judge Chesnut in the District Court, Pyrites Co., Inc., v. Davison Chemical Co.,
4 F. Supp. 294, it is held that compensation awards in Maryland under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act ( 33 US CA 901 et seq.) are entitled to preference against the employer without limit of amount, and the decree of the District Court is affirmed.