Trailer Convoys, Inc. v. Holsclaw

EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court affirming an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Board which allowed the deceased employee’s dependents to recover full benefits.

The decedent, Charles William Holsclaw, was under contract with Trailer Convoys to drive his truck from Louisville, Kentucky, to Oakland, California. Two days after he left Louisville, in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, Holsclaw was found slumped over the wheel of his truck, which was in a line of trucks waiting for traffic interviews conducted by the New Mexico Highway Department. He was…