Summary

Thompson v. Lawson — Opinion of the Court

The single, unentangled question before us is whether, on these unchallenged facts, Julia was at the time of Otis' death in 1951, his statutory 'widow,' as that term is described by Congress in the Longshoremen's Act: 'The term 'widow' includes only the decedent's wife living with or dependent for support upon him at the time of his death
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