Friedeman v. State

I must respectfully dissent from that portion of the opinion which overrules Hannon v. J. L. Brandeis & Sons, Inc., 186 Neb. 122, 181 N.W.2d 253 (1970), and affirms the compensation court’s award of benefits to the widower and next of kin on account of the decedent’s death by her own hand. In doing so I acknowledge that the majority’s rationale is well reasoned and is supported by respectable authority. My problem arises from the fact that the question presented is not one of first impression.

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-101 (Reissue 1978) provides, as it did at the time of Hannon, that one who is…