Taylor Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

W. E. Padgett, a married man forty years of age and having a wife and two children, both under sixteen years of age, was acting as top foreman at the mine of plaintiff in error on August 14, 1918, when he was shot and injured by an employee of plaintiff in error. Compensation was awarded Padgett by the arbitrator. That award was con-firmed by the Industrial Commission and a judgment was entered by the circuit court sustaining the award, and the case has been brought here by writ of error for further review.

Notice of the decision of the arbitrator, dated February 26, 1920, was given to the…