Stockham Pipe Fittings Co. v. Williams

BROWN, Justice.

This is an appeal “by certiorari” authorized by § 297 of the Code of 1940, Tit. 26, to review the judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, awarding to appellee compensation as the widow of Henry E. Williams, under the elective compensation act. Code 1940, Tit. 26, §§ 292-306.

The evidence is without dispute, and shows that Williams was at the time of his injury and death an employee of the appellant at its plant in the City of Birmingham, and had been such for several years; that on the lltli of June, 1942, after he had punched the clock at 3 :30 p. m., terminating his…