Frost v. Blue Ridge Timber Corp.

The Blue Ridge Timber Corporation and its insurer, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, have prosecuted their appeal in the nature of a writ of error from a decree of the Chancery Court of Knox County sustaining the claim of Mrs. Frost, as the widow of John N. Frost, for compensation f'or the death of her husband, under the Workmen's Compensation Law, Acts 19191, chapter 123.

The defenses interposed to the claim for compensation are: First, that John N. Frost was not an employee of the Blue Ridge Timber Corporation at the time of his death, but sustained the relation to the Corporation…