Kentucky Fluorspar Co. v. Wolford

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Affirming.

H. D. Wolford, an employee of the Kentucky Fluorspar Company, was assaulted by a fellow workman and seriously injured. The Workmen’s Compensation Board awarded the injured employee $3 per week for 268 weeks, and the Crittenden circuit court affirmed the award. On this appeal from that judgment, the company insists that Wolford’s injury did not result from an accident arising out of his employment, and therefore is not compensable under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ky. Stats., sec. 4880 et seq.).

On July 20, 1933, Coley Conger, appellant’s “mill…