Locke v. Centennial Ice & Coal Co.

This is an appeal by application of Mariah Locke for writ of certiorari from an order and judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson county under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The petitioner and Lillie I-Iooten are complainants, and the Centennial Ice & Coal Company, a corporation, is the respondent in the. cause.

The court found that Wesley Hooten was in the employment of defendant, and was injured and killed while in the line and scope of his employment as a laborer of defendant. The decedent and respondent were bound by the Workmen’s Compensation Law; and notice that claim for…