Eaton v. Bernalillo County

SADLER, Justice.

The plaintiff’s husband died shortly after being struck by an automobile while directing traffic at the scene of the collision of two automobiles on east Central Avenue in the City of Albuquerque. The widowed plaintiff asks compensation from the County of Bernalillo by virtue of L. 1933, c. 178, § 2, N.M. Supplement, 1938, § 156-110, and from Mountain States Mutual Casualty Company, its insurer.

The right of recovery depends upon the status of plaintiff’s husband, at the time of his death, as a “workman” or “employee” of Bernalillo County within the true meaning of those words…