Corken v. Corken Steel Products, Inc.

PALMORE, Judge.

On the morning of November 13, 1961, Irvin Corken, Jr., a salesman employed by Corken Steel Products, Inc., was calling on customers in Campbell County. Between calls ]ie stopped at a. restaurant in Newport and had lunch. As he was in the act of getting back into his automobile, which was parked on the street near the restaurant, he was deliberately shot and killed by a stranger acting without provocation or discernible reason of any kind, evidently a madman. A workmen’s compensation claim asserted by his dependent widow and child was denied in a 3-2 decision by the board. This…