Hendershot v. City of Lincoln

This is an appeal by the city of Lincoln from a judgment of the district court affirming an award of the compensation court for the death of Warren Hendershot.

The facts disclose that the deceased was a strong, healthy *607man, who had scarcely been sick a day since he was operated on for appendicitis about ten years before the accident. He was married in 1923, and had resided at 301 North Forty-fourth street, Lincoln, for 12 years, and was the father of four children, who with his wife, the plaintiff, survive him.

On Saturday, March 30, 1935, he was working at his trade of a bricklayer, as an…