Sullivan v. Heirs of Sullivan

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The Attorney-Referee, the Workmen’s Compensation Commission and the Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi, have held that the heirs of Pershing B. Sullivan are entitled to recover under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for his death on October 12, 1964, from a massive coronary thrombosis.

Sullivan had been a practicing lawyer for 16 years and was a District Attorney of the State of Mississippi at the time of his death. He had been a partner in two different law firms, but about a year before his death he opened his own law office. At the time of his death he employed one…