Massey v. United States Steel Corporation

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case instituted in the circuit court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division, by Lena Mae' Massey against United States Steel Corporation, T. C. I. Division, to recover compensation for the death of her husband, Felix Monroe Massey.

We granted certiorari on application of the plaintiff below to review the trial court’s judgment denying compensation.

Plaintiff’s husband, to whom we will sometimes hereafter refer as the employee, died in a hospital in Fairfield on August 13, 1952. Death was “due to a dissecting aortic aneurysm.” The words just…