U. S. Coal & Coke Co. v. Parsons

MOREMEN, Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal from a judgment approving an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board to appellee, Parsons, for disability, concerns whether he was injured by reason of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

Appellee was injured while setting a cross-collar in appellant’s mine. A cross-collar is a beam used to support the roof of a mine. It is raised to the roof by means of a lifting jack, supports are placed at each end of the bar, and the jack is removed. The cross-collar of this incident was a round timber, 10 feet long,…