Collins v. Big Four Paving, Inc.

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• although bodies not yet discovered, employer and insurer had benefit of all known facts within a few days of decedents’ disappearance in plane wreck, and under the circumstances further investigation would serve no purpose
• actual knowledge “does not mean first-hand knowledge, but only ‘knowledge’ as the word is used in common parlance * * * ‘[AJctual knowledge’ is knowledge sufficient to impress a reasonable man, i.e., knowledge obtained in the daily affairs of life, but not absolute certainty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).