Brewer v. Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co.

This case arises under the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Act and reaches this court on appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Greene county, affirming the final award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, awarding plaintiff compensation for the death of her husband, Jake Brewer, at the rate of $11 per week for three hundred weeks. The plaintiff filed her claim for compensation alleging that her husband was electrocuted by a charged lever and machinery which said lever and machinery the deceased was using as the employee of the defendant at the time of his death.

The defendant…