Mahan-Jellico Coal Co. v. Scalf

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment for $1500 in favor of the appellee for an alleged injury received by him while he was working for the appellant. The company is insisting that a directed verdict should have been given in its favor because Scalf failed to show any causal connection between his alleged injury and the condition from which he was suffering, and further, even though he did receive an injury it was not shown that negligence of .the company was the proximate cause thereof.

Scalf, who was 42 years of age at the time he re ceived his alleged…