American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Herring

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the employee was awarded compensation by the industrial commission. The exception is to a judgment of the superior court denying the appeal of the employer and the insurance carrier.

H. B. Herring was employed by Southeastern Compress & Warehouse Company as niglit watchman at its plant in Athens, Georgia, and the evidence authorized the inference that while going upon his regular round he was shot and injured by some person whose only motive was to commit a robbery upon him. The evidence warranted also a finding that owing to the location of the…