Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. v. Goble

STEINFELD, Justice.

Lawrence Oliver Goble, Jr., age 29 years, had been an employee of appellant Turner Elkhorn Mining Company for three years. He was a coal miner working in the Carry Back Coal Company-BX-50 mine, where he was killed on Saturday night, October 9, or on Sunday, October 10, 1971, when his arm came into contact with a trolley wire carrying 400 volts of electricity. His widow, for herself, as administratrix of his estate, and as statutory guardian and mother of his infant children, filed a claim with the Workmen’s Compensation Board seeking benefits from Lawrence’s employer. The…