Opinion

Wilson v. Birmingham Electric Co.

  • 219 Ala. 436
  • 122 So. 411
  • 1929 Ala. LEXIS 218
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Mar 28, 1929
Status
Published
Author
Sayre
On the bench
Sayre, Anderson, Thomas, Brown
Cited by
8 cases
Authority
More cited than 84.2%

The opinion

SAYRE, J.

Caleb Wilson came to his death by accident while in the employ of appellee. Appellant, alleging that she was his widow, filed her claim for compensation under the Elective Compensation Law, section 7543 et seq. of the Code of 1923. Ada Wilson intervened on behalf of herself and two minor children, alleging that she was the widow, and the children were the children of deceased employé. The court’s decree awarded compensation to the children, and denied to both women any part of it.

Under repeated decisions of this court, if there was any evidence going to sustain the decree in the form in which it was rendered, it will be affirmed on appeal or application for certiorari to this court. Ex parte Sloss-Sheffield Co., 207 Ala. 219 , 92 So. 458 ; Ex parte Louisville & Nashville R. Co., 208 Ala. 216 , 94 So. 289 ; Hardisty v. Woodward Iron Co., 214 Ala. 256 , 107 So. 837 ; Martin v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., 216 Ala. 500 , 113 So. 578 . We are of opinion, certainly, that there was evidence to support the decree in the trial court, and, indeed, that the great, if not the uneontradicted, weight of the evidence justified and required that decree. Appellant Ola Wilson was not entitled to compensation on account of the death of Caleb, because, though she was living with him at the time as man and wife, both had spouses by former marriages which had never been, so far as tbe evidence showed, dissolved by either death or divorce. Nor was Ada entitled, because, without a dissolution of her ‘marriage with Caleb, she had taken another husband, and it conclusively appeared that at tbe time of tbe death of Caleb she was living apart from him, and that he had not for years contributed to her support. Code, § 7552. But tbe undisputed minor children of Caleb and Ada were entitled to com-' pensation under the law. Code, § 7552, as construed in Ex parte Cline, 213 Ala. 599, 600 , 105 So. 686 . The decree under review was

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written in agreement with the views here expressed.

It is affirmed.

ANDERSON, O. J., and THOMAS and BROWN, JJ., concur.

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