Gilliland v. Edgar Zinc Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, J.:

The plaintiff brought this action for compensation for the death of her husband, an employee of the defendant company, who, as she alleged, became overheated on a warm afternoon while hauling ashes from defendant’s smelting plant, and who while so overheated drank ice water and was'Seized with acute congestion and died the same afternoon.

The evidence tended to show these facts. The arbitrator found that the defendant and its deceased employee were working under the compensation act; and—

“III. That the employment of the said S. H. Gilliland…