Martin v. Republic Steel Co.

KbTIGHT, Justice.

Petitioner, Charley Martin, filed his complaint in the court below, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Code 1923, § 7534 et seq.), against the Republic Steel Company, for recovery of compensation for loss of an eye, which petitioner alleges he sustained as the proximate result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by the defendant.

The defendant, in defense of the suit, filed an answer denying (a) that the petitioner was an employee of the defendant at the time he received the injury, and (b) that proper notice of the accident and -injury had…