Eureka Casualty Company v. Mrs. Elsie Phillips, Etc.

On the record and on briefs and oral arguments of attorneys, this court has duly considered an appeal from the judgment of the district court, pursuant to the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Tennessee, granting an award to the widow and minor children of the decedent, Ernest Phillips, of compensation and of an additional allowance for funeral benefits and an allowance to appellee’s attorney of a fee in the amount of twenty percent of the recovery.

Eureka Casualty Company was a compensation insurance carrier of New River Fuel Company, employer of the decedent. The deceased left home in apparent…