Sledge v. Hunt

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The facts, as found by the trial court, are not questioned, and are as follows:

“The defendants rested their case without putting on any proof and from the petitioner’s proof the Court finds that the Hunt Lumber Company was on September 1, 1926, engaged in lumber, timber cutting, and logging operations in Monroe County, Tennessee, and had in its employ in said work, on and before said date, more than five men as set ont in plaintiff’s petition. Mrs. Beulah Sledge is the widow of. Joseph U. Sledge, and she has not married, and the petitioner…