Sweat v. U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Mae Sweat, plaintiff, is the widow of Otis Sweat. She instituted this suit to recover benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Tennessee (T.C.A. § 50-901 et seq.) for the death of her husband. The death occurred on March 12, 1957.

Her husband was an employee of the Wright & Lopez contracting firm which is, and was, engaged in the work of relocating telephone poles for telephone companies. The work in which the contractor was engaged at the time of the death was that of relocating telephone poles in the Tazewell Pike area of Knox County, Tennessee, for…