Menzel v. Southern Stevedoring Co.

While plaintiff’s husband was engaged in working as a longshoreman for the defendant he was killed. His widow sues under the Employers’ Liability Acts. She sues the employer and the surety company.

She alleges that at the time of her husband’s death, he was earning eighty cents an hour during eight hours of the day, aggregating $6.40 per day according to which she is entitled to recover 32% per cent or $12.47 per week for 300 weeks from June 21, 1926.

For answer, the defendant, Southern Stevedoring Company, admitted that the plaintiff was the widow of the deceased and that he was employed by it…