Mississippi Federated Cooperatives v. Jefferson

This case is before us on appeal by the Mississippi Federated Cooperatives and its insurance carrier from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission approving an award of death benefits to the widow and dependent minor children of Beller Jefferson, deceased.

The record shows that Beller Jefferson was an employee of the Mississippi Federated Cooperatives, and that on April 25, 1952, while he and two other employees were working on a fertilizer pile in a bin, Jefferson fell from the fertilizer pile…