Bell Coal Co. v. Jackson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

Obie Jackson received severe burns in a mine ex- • plosion while working in one of the Bell Coal Company’s mines in 1942. He was finally awarded compensation on the basis of 50 per cent permanent disability.. That award was affirmed by this Court in Bell Coal Co. v. Jackson, 298 Ky. 238, 182 S. W. 2d 775, in October, 1944. Subsequently, the Company filed a motion to reopen the case on the ground that, after the full Board had made its award and the appeal was pending in the Bell Circuit Court, it learned that' Jackson was working on a full time…