West Estate v. Southern Belt, Telephone & Telegraph Co.

This is an appeal by Mrs. Hardie West, a widow, and her minor daughter, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Union County affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission which affirmed an order of the attorney-referee denying compensation for the death of Evelyn June West, an employee of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, a self insurer, which death occurred on November 12, 1954, in the telephone exchange of the Company at New Albany, Mississippi, at a time when she was engaged at work as an operator in the telephone exchange.

There is little if any dispute as to the…