Stanaland v. Traders & General Insurance

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The proceeding in its present form is a suit by Mrs. Lizzie Stanaland, a married woman, against Traders & General Insurance Company. The deceased, Ed Miller, was her half brother. The trial court’s judgment was in the claimant’s favor.

The Industrial Accident Board on March 20, 1944, denied a claim for compensation filed by the brothers and sisters of deceased, the then alleged beneficiaries, including Mrs. Stanaland, and stated in the order as its reason for denying the claim, that “said Sam Miller, Joe Miller, Minnie Lee Summers, Nancy McLean and Lizzie…