McKay v. State Industrial Accident Commission

The defendant, State Industrial Accident Commission, has appealed from a judgment pursuant to the verdict of a jury awarding compensation for the death of her husband to the plaintiff, Agnes Mae McKay.

Defendant assigns as error the rulings of the court below denying its motions for an order of involuntary nonsuit and a directed verdict, both based on the insufficiency of the evidence.

The decedent, Hosea Pratt McKay, at the time of his death on December 28, 1935, was employed as an electrician by Columbia Construction Company, a corporation, which was doing construction work on the Bonneville…