Lockhart v. State Compensation Commissioner

Kenna, Judge:

The widow of P. W. Lockhart appeals from an order of the State Compensation Commissioner, after hearing, declining to award compensation for the death of P. W. Lockhart while in the employ of the Matheny Motor Truck Company of Parkersburg.

Lockhart was shop foreman for the truck company and had been for six or seven years. As a part of his em ployment, he painted vehicles with a “spray gun” when there were no painters available. On April 17, 1932, Lock-hart painted a truck and was engaged in doing so for perhaps five hours, not finishing until approximately eleven o’clock in the…