Dependents of Sweeney Ex Rel. Estate of Sweeney v. Cape Fear Wood Corp.

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from denial of a claim for workmen’s compensation on account of the death of John D. Sweeney. The Industrial Commission denied the claim because it found that there was no employer-employee relation between the decedent and the defendant, and bcause the latter is exempt from the law under the terms of Code Section 72-107(2) (requiring minimum number of employees in this State), and also exempt perforce section 72-107(4) as it is engaged in, quoting from the statute, “logging operations and work incident thereto.” Upon appeal, the court affirmed the…