Travelers Insurance v. Bacon

1. The evidence authorized the inference that the person for whose death compensation was sought by a beneficiary under the Georgia workmen’s compensation act was an employee entitled to compensation, and a finding to that effect by the industrial commission is conclusive as to the fact and will not be set aside.

2. Assuming that the contract of employment, under which the duties of the employee were to proceed with the master’s boat into navigable waters and there operate the same and “ fish for prawn . . . and shrimp ” around the bars, and always in sight of land, for a compensation to be…