Hartman v. Valier & Spies Milling Co.

The defendant Milling Company appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of the City of St. Louis reversing a finding and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of it and its insurer, and against the claimant-respondent. The Commission had found there was not sufficient competent evidence to support respondent’s claim for compensation as widow and sole dependent of Thomas A. Hartman, who admittedly was killed on January 14, 1945, by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by appellant.

The ground of the Commission’s finding was that respondent’s evidence…