Rutherford v. Tobin Quarries, Inc.

This case comes to the writer on reassignment. It is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lafayette County, reversing an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission which award denied compensation to the respondent.

The respondent filed a claim with the commission claiming as compensation the sum of $8300.60, on account of the death of her husband.

On July 18, 1931, J. S. Rutherford, the husband of the respondent . received injuries causing his death in a collision between a truck owned and operated by him and a truck owned by R. H. Johnson and driven by Robert Menaugh. This…