Baker v. Highway Ins. Underwriters

McGILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of ■the District Court of Gaines County setting aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board.

For a better understanding of the points involved a brief history of the litigation is deemed necessary.

On March 16, 1946, W. R. (Roscoe) Baker, the husband of appellant Nannie Mae Baker and father of the minors Barbara Jean Baker and Carolyn Ann Balcér, as Guardian of whose estates appellant Nannie Mae Baker also appeals, was ac-cidentálly killed while operating a truck 1'oaded 'with sawed lumber, between Loving-ton and Hobbs, in the state of New…