Stephens v. Moore

McGehee, O. J.

On this appeal we are asked to review the action of the circuit court in commuting into a lump sum payment an award made by the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, payable in installments, to Fannie Billups Moore, the dependent mother of a deceased employee of the appellant E. W. Stephens, and in making an award, which had been denied in the order of the Commission, to Lorene Triplett Billups, the alleged wife of the deceased employee.

The employee, John T. Billups, was accidentally killed in the course of his employment while working for the appellant E. W. Stephens on January…