Cowart v. PEARL RIVER TUNG CO.

This litigation arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, Chapter 354, Laws of 1948, as amended by Chapter 412, Laws of 1950, (Section 6998, et seq., Title 25, Yol. 5-a, Revised Miss. Code of 1942) and grew out of the death of Rosa May, a Negro woman, who appears to have been at least fifty-five years of age on December 18, 1950, when she died of a “massive cerebrovascular accident” (explained in the testimony as a rupture of a blood vessel on the brain) while actually engaged about the work of her employment in picking up tung (oil) nuts under the trees in the tung orchard of the appellee,…