Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Watts

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

Action by the plaintiff for compensation for herself and dependent children under the “Workmen’s Compensation Act”, Code 1923, § 7534 et seq., for the death of her husband, an employe of the defendant.

While technical rules as to pleading are not required in actions of this charter, the present complaint should have more accurately charged that the “Plaintiff’s intestate”, instead of the “plaintiff”, was employed, injured, etc., yet, considering the complaint in its entirety, the only reasonable meaning of same is that the plaintiff’s intestate, her husband, was…