Mid-Continent Casualty Co. v. Conrad

POPE, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation death case. Mid-Continent Casualty Company complains that the trial court admitted improper evidence in proof -of the cause of death and course of employment, and that the jury committed misconduct. We affirm the judgment.

James Conrad, at about eleven o’clock on the night of July 11, 1960, was found beside the truck which he had been driving. His truck had left the highway and run into a ditch and drainage pipe. This attracted the attention of a witness who found Conrad a few feet from the truck with the seat and various tools scattered on the…