Cornet v. City of Chattanooga

Petitioner’s claim for an award of compensation for the accidental death of her husband was dismissed by the circuit court, on the city’s demurrer, and she has appealed in error.

The petition, averring that the city had accepted the provisions of the compensation law, as authorized by Code section 6856 (e), charges that the city employed petitioner’s husband “as a police officer, under the direction and orders of the Commissioner of Fire and Police,” and that he lost his life by accident arising out of and in the course of such employment, while undertaking to make an arrest.

One ground of the…