Barney Cockburn & Sons v. Lane

BRICE, Chief Justice.

The action below was upon a claim for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Irving L. Lane was killed while in the employ of the appellants, Barney Cockburn & Sons, hereinafter called appellants; and the Employers Casualty Company, hereinafter called Casualty Company, was surety for the employers. The appellees are the parents of the deceased Irving L. Lane, who had neither wife nor children, and who was killed in the course of his employment, October 16, 1939. He had been employed two weeks by appellant at the time of his death, at a weekly wage of $51.17.

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