Carper v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Fox, Judge:

Fletcher Carper complains of the action of the Compensation Commissioner and the Compensation Appeal Board in refusing to award compensation for injuries sustained by him on the 13th day of December, 1937.

Carper was employed as an electrician in a mine of the Amherst Coal Company at Braeholm. This company, in addition to its plant equipment, was the owner of numerous residences which were leased to its employees, one of which was occupied by Carper. The house occupied by him was situated approximately one-third of a mile from the lamp house, where he would first come in contact…