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MURPHY v. KINGSLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY

No. 51380.

400 S.W.2d 69 (1966)

Willie Mary MURPHY, Widow, and John Edward Murphy, Richard Malcolm Murphy, Charles Allen Murphy, Anna Marie Murphy, George Dale Murphy, Jerome Donald Murphy, Melvin Eugene Murphy, Elizabeth Murphy, Margaret Murphy and Katherine Murphy, Minor Children and All Dependents of Lee Murphy, Deceased, Claimants-Appellants, v. KINGSLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, a Corporation, Employer-Respondent, and Zurich Insurance Company, a Corporation, Insurer-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

March 14, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert I. Binowitz, St. Louis, for claimants-appellants.

F. X. Cleary, Paul S. Brown, J. C. Jaeckel, Moser, Marsalek, Carpenter, Cleary & Jaeckel, St. Louis, for respondents.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In their amended claim under the Workmen's Compensation Act, Willie Mary Murphy and her ten minor children sought an award of $16,500 (RSMo 1959 Supp. § 287.240, V.A.M.S.) for the accidental death of her husband and their father, Lee Murphy, on July 9, 1962. In the language of the claim Mr. Murphy was "working on hanging scaffold, supported by weights on roof of building, when one end of the scaffold came loose" and he fell forty feet onto...

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