Hoy v. T. S. Grayson Lumber Co.

Eva Hicks was an employee of the defendant company and while at work in February, 1929, he received an accidental injury to his foot. He died in August following. Plaintiff, the mother of Hicks, brought this suit under section 8, Act No. 20 of 1914, as finally amended by Act No. 242 of 1928, alleging that her son died as the result of the injury; that he left no widow or descendants; and that she was wholly dependent upon him for support. She asks for compensation, as provided in the act.

The suit was filed in the parish of Webster. Defendant excepted to the jurisdiction of that court on the…