Chamber of Commerce v. Turner

From an award of compensation to plaintiff for the death of her husband, the employer and his insurer have appealed in error.

The single question presented by the appeal is whether the deceased husband, Turner, came to his death by an accident arising out of his employment. It is not denied that the death was accidental, Stratton Co. v. Rollison, 156 Tenn., 256, nor that it occurred in the course of the employment.

Taking that view of the evidence which is most favorable to the plaintiff, as we are. required to do on the appeal in error of the defendants, the facts are these. Turner was…