Spratlin v. Evans

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the appellant-employer, Floyd Spratlin, and the appellant-compensation carrier, Southern Farm Bureau, appeal from a circuit court judgment affirming the Commission’s award of compensation benefits to Dian Cohns, Wilma Jean Cohns and Larry D. Cohns as acknowledged and dependent illegitimate children of the decedent-employee, Hosea Evans Stokes, and in reversing the Commission’s finding that Lillie Tarpley Evans was not the widow of the decedent, and in ruling to the contrary as to the widow.

The appellants have designated the…