Brown v. Birmingham Nurseries

An award of compensation was denied by the trial Judge and Brown appeals. The question is whether or not the trial Judge erred in' holding, on the facts of the case, that the right to compensation was cut off by the employee’s wilful misconduct, under Code section 6861.

Brown was a colored laborer in the employ of the ap-pellee Company, which was doing work in Memphis calling for use of trucks and the hauling of material from a point in Arkansas.' Brown worked with and on these trucks and made trips back and forth. At a point on the highway, crossing a bridge, while sitting on the bed of a…