Basye v. Odom

Appellants, Guy E. Basye, W. C. Bruner and R. M. Bruner, are partners and are engaged in the manufacture of ax handles in the city of Hope, Arkansas, under the firm name of Bruner Ivory Handle Company. Appellee became an employee of appellants in March, 1937, and worked for them in the handle plant about seven months in that year, about the same time in 1938, nearly all of 1939 and three months in 1940. He quit work because of illness which has since been diagnosed as bronchiectasis which is a disease causing dilation of one or more of the large bronchial tubes.

He brought this action against…