Long Flame Coal Co. v. State Compensation Commissioner

Lively, Judge:

These two appeals from the rulings of the state compensation commissioner, and prayer for prohibition in No. 7043, present one controlling question of law and will be considered together.

In the Long Flame case, the employee, Cabell Thomas, was injured by a slate fall in the mine on November 29, 1929, and died on November 30, 1930, at about ten o’clock A. M., more than one year from the date of his injury. In the Pettry case, Harrison Pettry, the husband of Alice B. Pettry, and an employee of Glogora Coal Company, was injured in the employement on September 30, 1926, and died on…