Peabody Coal Co. v. Taulbee

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.. This is an appeal from a judgment affirming an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The only question presented is whether an award of compensation for full disability should be upheld if the claimant is still doing work similar to that performed by him before the award was granted.

Taulbee, now about fifty-five years of age, has been a coal miner for more than thirty years, and for most of that period was employed by Peabody Coal Company. He worked chiefly as a helper on a cutting machine, which is used to undercut the coai seam. There was evidence that part of…