Southern Underwriters v. Jones

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

While Roy Earl Jones was working as an employee for the Brashear Drilling Company, a co-partnership, in Clay County, he contracted pneumonia, from which he died. His employer carried insurance with the Southern Underwriters, under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 8306 et seq.

After his death, Pauline Jones, his widow, in behalf of herself and as next friend for her minor son, Gary Jones, filed with the Industrial Accident Board a claim for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The Industrial Accident Board awarded…