Watson v. National Burial Assn., Inc.

This is an appeal from the order of an attorney-referee, the Workmen’s Compensation Commission and the Circuit Court whereby each of them denied the death benefits claimed by Juanita Watson, the legal wife of Robert Timothy Watson at the time of his death on June 28, 1956, under the Mississippi Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The claimant and Robert Timothy Watson were married in December 1940 and were divorced in March 1941. They remarried in March 1947. Thereafter they lived together continuously until September 11,1953, at Green- ville, Mississippi, in an apartment upstairs over the Watson…