Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case the Washington Supreme Court held that the State could not, consistently with the Federal Constitution, make an award under its state compensation law to *251 the widow of a workman drowned in a navigable river. The circumstances which caused the court to reach this conclusion were these…
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