Belcher v. Vulcan Materials Co.

HOLMES, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case.

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether, in this instance, the remarriage of the widow and the nondependency of the children relieved the employer from further payments of workmen’s compensation benefits. We find that the employer is not liable for further payments and affirm.

The record reveals the following: The employee’s widow brought suit against the employer under Alabama’s workmen’s compensation law, Chapter 5, Title 26, Code of Alabama 1940, on behalf of herself and minor children. The widow of the employee prevailed in her lawsuit…