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It was a very hotly contested case. The United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company was the insurance company that fought it. They had a very learned lawyer named Mr. Warren Dimmock, a man I was quite fond of although he was awfully stiff. He fought it all the way through. They took it all the way through the courts.

I remember Mahti Latti plainly because he was one of the blond, thin, pale, washed-out-looking Finns or Letts, who spoke very little English with a rather bad accent, but was very wrought up. Time after time he would say, “Many times I come here. You make me an award. The next day I hear there is an appeal and I get no money. Why I get no money?” He couldn't see why he couldn't get any money. And it was ridiculous that there were such long delays. He was getting poorer and poorer. He had a very serious injury to his leg, I think, because osteomyelitis set in. It went through all the New York State Courts. We were defeated in one of the Appellate Courts, sustained in the Court of Appeals and then the USF&G took it to the Supreme Court.

They were trying to fight back this case which was an expensive case, but more than that they were trying to set up the principle that just everything possible was under maritime and that they were not responsible for anything around the water.