Cooper & Co. v. American Can Co.

Plaintiff, by virtue of' the Workmen’s Compensation statute in behalf of the dependent widow, recovered a verdict in the Superior Court, after a collision that resulted in the instant death of John M. Crosby.

The appeal is on the general motion. Mr. Crosby was, at the time of the accident, an employee of plaintiff and his work was to accompany his son, the driver of plaintiff’s motor truck conveying a load of lumber from Belfast to Searsport over the main highway.

The accident occurred about nine in the morning of January 8, 1929, in a sparsely settled section, on a modern country road.

The…