Travelers Insurance Company v. Lester

This is a workmen’s compensation case-wherein error is assigned upon the judgment of the superior court affirming the award of the director. Counsel for the plaintiff in error argue two propositions: first, that the evidence before the-director demands a reversal, because the claimant to whom the compensation was awarded failed to negative the fact that the marriage between the deceased and Lucile Smith Lester, the successful claimant, had not been dissolved by divorce; and second,, that the bigamous marriage of Lucile on October 20, 1942, as a, matter of law established the fact that the…