Esau v. Smith Bros.

This is a proceeding under the Nebraska workmen’s compensation law, brought by a mother, claiming to be a dependent, on account of the fatal injury and death of her son.

Most of the vital facts, so far as they affect the employment and the injury to the employee, are admitted by the pleadings and by a stipulation of facts. Defendant is a Texas corporation, with its principal place of business in Dallas. During October and November, 1930, it was executing a contract for the laying of a natural gas pipe line and connections in a northeasterly direction from Haddam, Kansas, through Nebraska and…