Overton-Green Drive-It-Yourself System Inc. v. Cook

In behalf of herself and her two minor children, Mrs. Rosa Lee Cook instituted a proceeding before the Industrial Board against Overton-Green Drive-It-Yourself System Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Overton-Green”) to recover compensation for the homicide of Andrew Eugene Cook, the husband and father respectively of Mrs. Cook and said children. The director awarded Mrs. Cook, for the benefit of herself and her two children, compensation at the rate of $1.55 per week for a period of three hundred weeks from and including December 26, 1939, the date of the accident, and 45% cents a week for…