Houston Contracting Co. v. Reed

This is an appeal by the Houston Contracting Company and Zurich General Accident Insurance Company, its carrier, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, which had affirmed the finding of the attorney-referee, awarding the claimant, appellee, compensation benefits, and the claimant cross-appeals.

*218Claimant was a resident of Louisiana and was employed by the appellant contracting company, who was engaged in the construction of a gas pipeline from Louisiana through Mississippi to a point in…