Mitchell v. Consolidated Coal Co.

The statement in this ease may be materially abbreviated by quoting at the outset the statement of counsel for appellant, that the sole and “only question in dispute is whether or not the relation of employer and employee existed between the defendant company and the deceased.” It is not denied that deceased had been employed in the defendant’s mine, but it is insisted that, at the time of his injury, he had been discharged from the service, and that the relation of employer and employee, as contemplated by the statute, was completely terminated. The injury was received by the deceased while…