Smith v. West Point-Pepperell, Inc.

This is a workmen's compensation case.

Appellant, the widow and administratrix of the employee's estate, appeals from an order by the Circuit Court of Lee County which dismissed the employee's pending action for compensation after he died from non-related causes.

The appellant-widow contends, through able counsel who has favored this court with an excellent brief, that a pending action under the Workmen's Compensation Act survives the injured employee's death from unrelated causes; or in the alternative that article I, section 13, of the Alabama Constitution forbids the abatement, upon death of…