Moore v. Nashville Union Stock Yards, Inc.

From a Judgment dismissing her petition under the workmen’s compensation statute (Code 1932, section 6851 et seq.) to recover for the death of her son, alleged to have resulted from an accident sustained while in defendant’s employ, the petitioner has appealed to this court.

A serious qestion arises as to the admissibility of the evidence by which petitioner undertook to show that the dead boy sustained an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. For the purposes of this opinion, we may omit consideration of that question.

The deceased was seventeen years of age at the time…