Southern Underwriters v. Weddle

NEALON, Chief Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. We shall designate the parties as they were known in the lower court. Defendant in error will be referred to as plaintiff and plaintiff in error as defendant. Plaintiff alleged that on or about November 9, 1936, while engaged in the regular course of his employment as an employee of W. W. Rollins, whose workmen’s compensation insurance was carried by defendant, he was suddenly, accidentally and unexpectedly injured by breathing, inhaling and being subjected to poisonous gas and poisonous gaseous fumes and was overcome by said gas…