Georgia Power Co. v. McCook

This case arose by reason of an appeal by the employer from an award of the Department of Industrial Delations in favor of the widow of an employee, whose death-resulted from an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Claimant’s husband was a regular employee of the Georgia Power Company, working two weeks and then being laid off for two weeks and returning to work for two more weeks. The employer adopted this method of working employees of the class of claimant’s husband in order to keep all its employees employed. At the time of his death he was receiving a regular…