Friedeman v. State

This is an appeal by the State of Nebraska from the decision of the three-judge Workmen’s Compensation Court which reversed a judgment of the single-judge court. The three-judge court determined that the employee suffered a compensable injury and was totally disabled until her death by her own hand. In the companion case, submitted together, the State appeals from the judgment of the compensation court, holding that the widower and next of kin were entitled to death benefits on account of decedent’s death, which the court held arose out of and in the course of her employment at the Beatrice…