Hornsby v. International Harvester Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the full Board awarded appellants, dependents of a deceased employee, $12 a week for 400 weeks. The award was reversed by the Court below with directions to dismiss appellants’ claim.

The sole issue in the case is whether or not the deceased suffered an injury, while working for appellee, which caused his death. He was an able bodied man, 50 years of age, and was employed by appellee as a coal loader in one of its mines. On the day of his death he was apparently in good health. He was last seen…