Crowder v. State Compensation Commissioner

Maxwell, Judge:

Claimant, widow of Harry Crowder, deceased, prosecutes this appeal from an order of the state compensation commissioner refusing her an award of compensation on account of the death of her husband.

On the 24th of December, 1931, Crowder was shot to death while in the discharge of his duties as an operator of a gasoline station of the Pure Oil Company in a suburban section of the city of Charleston.

In opposition to the making of an award to the claimant as dependent widow, it is urged that Crowder at the time of his death was not an employee of the Pure Oil Company because the…