Mississippi Baptist Medical Center v. Dependents of Mullett

¶ 13. The Mississippi Supreme Court described the “found dead” presumption in Washington v. Greenville Mfg. & Machine Works, 228 So.2d 642, 645 (Miss.1969) as follows:

The rule is firmly established in this state when an employee is found dead at a place where his duties require him to be or where he might properly be in the performance of his duties during work hours in the absence of evidence that he was not engaged in his employer’s business, there is a presumption that the accident arose out of and in the course of his employment.

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