Yager v. Gregory Cattle Co.

SMITH, Justice,

for the Court:

Mary Frances Yager appeals the Union County Circuit Court order affirming the Worker’s Compensation Full Commission’s decision which denied her compensation payments as a “surviving spouse” as defined under Miss.Code Ann. § 71-3-3(n) (1972).

Mary claims, in spite of her divorce from M.L. Yager, now deceased, that she is his “surviving spouse” and presumed dependent within the meaning of the Mississippi Worker’s Compensation Act and entitled to compensation payments for his death.

The Commission and Circuit Court concluded that the 1980 divorce legally terminated the…