Summers v. Tennessee Eastman Corp.

Ms. Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

J. C. Summers died November 12, 1934, from the effects of an accident by injury suffered in the course of his employment by the defendant corporation, and liability for compensation is not denied on this appeal. The question presented is: To whom does the award properly go? The case was heard on a stipulation of facts.

Summers first married Lillie Horn in Scott county, Virginia) -in 1922. 'A son, James Walter Summers, a petitioner herein, was born to them in’1923. In 1927 this wife obtained from him, in Virginia, a divorce.from bed and…