Perley v. . Paving Co.

Claim for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act for the death of Allen P. Perley, III. At the hearing before the Industrial Commission the plaintiffs' evidence tended to show that on the morning of 17 October, 1946, the decedent, while driving a truck loaded with materials to the defendant Paving Company's concrete mixer, between Black Mountain and Swannanoa, was struck at a railroad crossing by a train of the Southern Railway and instantly killed. The defendant Paving Company was engaged in laying base for highway paving and was using a concrete mixer which was moved as the work…