January-Wood Company v. Schumacher

Opinion op the ‘Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Ben Schumacher was sole night watchman at the cotton mill of the appellant, January-Wood Company, in Maysville. Their employment relation was controlled by the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ky. Stats., secs. 4880-4987). Some time about 1 o’clock in the morning of December 9, 1919, Schumacher was shot and killed by Henry L. Eddings while in the course of his duty he was making the rounds in a remote part of the building. The evidence conclusively shows that there had been intimate relations existing between Eddings and Schumacher’s wife,…