Selvey v. Robertson

STONE, Judge.

In this proceeding under the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Law [Chap. 287], the widow and minor children of Leland Gayle Selvey, an employee of Darrell D. Robertson d/b/a Robertson Dairy, seek to recover death benefits on account of the employee’s death in a tragic motorcycle-pickup crash on Highway 160 east of Lamar, Missouri, on August 25, 1967. (All statutory references are to RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S.) The referee found that, at the time of his death, the employee was engaged in exempt farm labor [§ 287.090, sub-sec. 1, subd. (2)] as to which the employer had not elected to bring…