Halpern v. De Jay Stores, Inc.

Stukes, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an award of workmen’s compensation to the widow, for herself and other dependents, of the deceased former manager of the Kay Bee Store in Columbia which is a unit in a chain of credit clothing stores owned and operated by appellant DeJay Stores, Inc., whose office is in New York City and which was the employer. The main question on appeal is whether the accidental death of the employee arose out of and in the course of his employment. The Industrial Commission so found and the Circuit Court affirmed, whence this appeal by the employer and its…