Straight Creek Fuel Company v. Hunt

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

On August 10,1925, J. M. Hunt was employed by appellant at its coal-mining plant in Bell county, and on that day, while working in its mines and using a rail bender to bend a rail around a corner, was injured when the handle slipped, and he fell diagonally across the steel rail. The parties were operating under the Compensation Act (Acts 1916, c. 33, as amended).

He had oiie rib fractured and the lower part of his stomach and bowels were bruised, as claimed by appellees. At any rate, twelve days thereafter he died.

His widow and two infant…