Jellico Coal Co. v. Adkins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

Appellant, Jellieo Coal Company, owns and operates a coal mine, and the appellee, Morgan Adkins, claims to have been injured by impure air while working as a laborer therein on and before January 26,1920.

Both parties had theretofore agreed to accept the workmen’s compensation act, chapter 33, Acts of 1916, and Adkins filed an application for compensation before that board, and it found (1) “Morgan Adkins, while employed by defendant became ill from the effects of bad air in the mine, and on January 26, 1920, discontinued his employment. At the…