Messersmith's Case

This is a claim by one Messersmith’s widow for workmen’s compensation benefits for herself and a minor child. The single member’s findings and decision were adopted by the reviewing board. In the Superior Court, a final decree was entered (a) stating that the “deceased . . . did not receive an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment and that his death was not causally related to any injury . . . arising out of or in the” course of his employment, and (b) dismissing the widow’s claim. The widow has appealed.

Messersmith was in South Carolina on a trip for his employer, New…