Heavner v. Town of Lincolnton

The questions of law, as stated in the brief of the appellant, are as follows:

1. Is the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act a constitutional and valid enactment of law?

2. Is the North Carolina Industrial Commission, as created and established, a constitutional and legitimate tribunal with power and authority to hear and pass upon the facts and law in the above entitled cause?

At the outset the plaintiff asserts that under the statute of distribution, C. S., 137, subsection 3, she would be entitled to one-half of the proceeds arising from the death of her son unless the general statute of…