Owens v. Southeast Arkansas Transportation Co.

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

For more than thirty years W. C. Owens had been employed by Southeast Arkansas Transportation Company and its predecessors. He was struck by an automobile December 26, 1948, and died from the injuries three days later. The instrumentality causing death was not an agency of the employer. The question is whether facts not substantially disputed were sufficient, as a matter of law, to carry the Company’s Compensation coverage under Act 319 of 1939 to the time and place of misfortune. The decedent’s widow has appealed from a Circuit Court judgment sustaining the…