Fuqua v. Department of Highways

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

Appellant is the widow of James Fuqua, an employee of the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The employer was operating under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, KRS 342.001 et seq., and Fuqua had signed the compensation register. On July 24, 1939, Fuqua was engaged, with other members of a maintenance crew under the direction of Fred Tatum, foreman, in cutting weeds and brush on the right of way of State Highway 45-C extending from Hartford to Hardinsburg. A few minutes before noon, the beginning of the lunch hour, it began to…