Carswell v. Woodward Bros.

Mrs. P. D. Carswell filed with the industrial commission a claim against Woodward Brothers for compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed while working at a cotton-gin owned and operated by the respondents in Burke county. The industrial commission denied the claim, and, the superior court having, on appeal, affirmed the action of the commission, the claimant brought the case to this court for review. The industrial commission based its award upon a finding that the respondents had regularly in their service less than ten employees in the same business, and thus, in the absence…