Conn v. Chestnut Street Realty Co.

The case originated before the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, wherein Gertrude Conn was claimant. While her appeal was pending in this court she died, and the cause was revived in the name of Ruth Conn and James Conn, her minor children. In the opinion, whenever the word “claimant” appears it is to be understood to refer to the employee, Gertrude Conn, now deceased. The salient facts, as the record shows, are that claimant was employed by the Chestnut Street Realty Company in the Title Guaranty Building in St. Louis, Missouri, as “forelady” of the women who cleaned the building, and had…