Martin v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.

This is an action for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act (Code 1923, §§ 7534-7613). The deceased workman was an employee of the defendant corporation, and was killed by a fellow servant.

The trial court's finding of facts and conclusion thereon, so far as need be stated, is as follows:

"The court finds that on September 15, 1925, said Will Martin was employed by the defendant at its furnace in the city of Birmingham, Jefferson county, Ala., and that his duties consisted of dumping coke from railroad cars at a place without the stockhouse; that his duties required him to work on a…