Memphis Fertilizer Co. v. Small

This is a 'Workmen’s Compensation suit instituted by an alleged common-law wife and her six-year-old daughter. The trial court held that the wife was entitled to no recovery, but decreed that the child should be paid $5 per week for four hundred weeks.

Roosevelt Small, while'in the employ of the Fertilizer Company, received injuries resulting* in his death. The only question involved is do the petitioners come within the provisions of the act?

The facts, as found by the tidal court, are as follows:

“I find that Roosevelt Small and Beatrice were never married, but had lived together for eleven…