Smith v. Young

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment entered upon a verdict of a jury finding that the plaintiff, appellee herein, is entitled to participate in the State Insurance Fund. Plaintiff’s husband was employed by Goodyear Atomic Corporation, a self-insurer, at its atomic energy plant in Pike County, as a maintenance mechanic from May 21, 1956, to January 27, 1957. He died from acute lymphatic leukemia on February 15,1957.

On January 27, 1959, the plaintiff filed a death claim for workmen’s compensation with the Industrial Commission in which she stated, inter alia, that his death…