Lundell v. Walker

Arkansas Workmen’s Compensation Commission ruled in favor of the claimant, widow of Henry Walker, and circuit court affirmed.

Sam Scott, Lundell Plantation foreman whose duty it was to supervise clearing new ground, shot and killed Walker about six o’clock the morning of February 10, 1941. George Brandon, superintendent for E. W. and Raymond Lundell, 1 employed Walker in December, 1940, and assigned him to a “bulldozer” used in the work he had undertaken..

Scott’s explanation was that because of Walker’s inefficiency or indifference, the hourly wage of 75 cents paid during December was reduced…