Wilson v. St. Louis Terminal Distributing Co.

This is a workman’s compensation suit which resulted in the Probate Judge dismissing the petition and the case is here on appeal in error by the petitioner.

The lower court held that the death of the deceased, while occurring in the course of did not arise out of his employment.

The petitioner is the widow of Henry Clay Wilson, who was sixty-nine years of age at the time of his death, and was employed as a watchman for the defendant St. Louis Terminal Distributing Company. His duties were to *173guard barges at the foot of Illinois Avenue, in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

He was found dead about…