Wood Mercantile Company v. Cole

This case arises under the Arkansas Workmen’s. Compensation Law (Act 319 of 1939). The material facts appear not to be in dispute.

Audrey H. Cole, tlie husband of appellee, Sadie Lee Cole, was killed in the course of his employment while working on a welding machine of appellant, Wood Mercantile Company, abont twelve weeks after he began work for this company. He was 34 years old at the time, and left surviving his widow and three small children. He was a Veteran of World War II, and had served more than seven years in his last enlistment. He was with an Army Railroad Battalion overseas and…