Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Hodges

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

This case involves a widow’s claim for workers’ compensation by reason of the death of her husband, the employee.

The decedent employee was shot and killed on the premises of his employer (a self-insurer). He was at work at the time, approaching the end of his shift. The parties here have stipulated that he died as the result of a gunshot wound; the location and time of same; he was an employee at work; his average weekly wage; proper jurisdiction and venue; his engagement in the normal course of his duties within said employment; and, he was married to the claimant.

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