Rogers v. University Motor Inn

LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal presents the Court with the primary issues of whether the Full Commission committed reversible error: 1) with regard to certain findings of facts, 2) in concluding that the appellant was not a “widow” of Earl Rogers, living apart from him for “justifiable cause,” and 3) in ruling that the appellant’s adulterous affair barred her from qualifying as a widow under N.C.G.S. §§ 97-2(14) and 97-39.

The appellant Sheila Rogers was married to the deceased Earl Rogers in 1965. They remained married until Earl Rogers’ death in February of 1987. The appellant and deceased lived…