Maryland Casualty Co. v. Lee

This is a compensation suit brought by the wife of Robert Lee, as his sole death-beneficiary, against appellant, the compensation insurance carrier for James Kennedy, employer of Robert Lee, to recover compensation for his death on February 5, 1941, resulting from injuries sustained in the course of his employment on December 11, 1936.

By pre-trial admissions, the issues to be tried were reduced to three: 1, cause of the employee's death; 2, whether death was due to disease; and 3, the lump sum question. Upon the jury's verdict on these issues the court rendered judgment for appellee in the…