Travelers Insurance Co. v. Allen

MOORE, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Jacklyn M. Allen, individually and as next friend for her four children (hereafter referred to as plaintiff) brought this suit against Travelers Insurance Company (Travelers) to recover workmen’s compensation insurance as a result of the death of her husband, Donald K. Allen. She alleged that her husband died as a result of a heart attack which was precipitated by “overex*810ertion” while he was working in the course and scope of his employment by Simmons Carpet Company, Inc. The defendant, Travelers Insurance Company, was the workmen’s…