Blew v. Conner

HUNTER, Judge.

Elmo Blew, appellant, was awarded $2,-575.39 by the referee in a workmen’s compensation hearing in which Albert F. Conner and Mary W. Conner, and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, respondents herein, were named as employers and insurer respectively. The award was approved by the Industrial Commission. The circuit court reversed the Industrial Commission and found for the named employers and insurer. Hence this appeal.

The facts are relatively uncontroverted. Albert F. Conner and Mary W. Conner own a farm in Macon County, Missouri. In July, 1953, the barn on that farm burned…