Bickley Ex Rel. Estate of Bickley v. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.

Moss, Chief Justice.

This case arose under the South Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act, Section 72-1 et seq., Code of 1962. It involves a claim for compensation arising out of the death of R. Collins Bickley who left surviving his dependent widow, Kaye B. Bickley, the respondent herein. She alleges that R. Collins Bickley who was employed by South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, the appellant herein, as an apprentice lineman, lost his life in an automobile accident on November 3, 1969, and such was an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. The appellant denied that…