Darby Harlan Coal Company v. Fee

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

The Darby Harlan Coal Company has appealed from an award of $4,000.00 made to Minerva Fee. On December 4, 1923, in the course of his employment as a miner for the Darby Harlan Coal Company, Chester Fee received injuries from which he died.

On January 11, 1924, his mother, Minerva Fee, filed an application with the Workmen’s Compensation Board for compensation and she named as the dependents of Chester Fee, herself as his mother, his two brothers, John Fee, aged twelve, Fred Fee, aged eleven, and his widow, Bertha Fee. Three days thereafter…