Briggs v. Tennessee Coal, Iron R. Co.

BROWN, Justice.

The workman, Mose Briggs, an employee of the defendant, on the 16th day of Oc tober, 1939, was fatally injured in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Both parties were at the time subject to and operating under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Code, 1923, §§ 7543-7552.

Eva Briggs, the wife of said workman, at the time of said injury was confined in the Bryce Insane Hospital as an indigent patient, and the circuit court finds as a fact that the workman .“had not contributed in any way to the support or maintenance of Eva Briggs since her admission in…