McEwan v. State Compensation Commissioner

Riley, Judge:

Agnes McEwan, surviving and dependent wife of Thomas McEwan, deceased, late employee of C. H. Mead Coal Company, appeals from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming a ruling of the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner refusing compensation on the ground that the death of claimant’s husband did not result from an injury received as a result of and in the course of his employment.

On January 12, 1940, decedent, then employed by said coal company as a fire boss at its No. 3 mine at East Gulf in Raleigh County, while en route from work to his home, was killed…