Cloversplint Coal Co. v. Blair

Opinion op the Coubt by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

On and for sometime prior to September 21, 1938, Orville Blair (22 years of age) and his brother, Dexter Blair (19 years of age) were employes of the appellant and defendant below, Cloversplint Coal Company, as miners in extracting coal from a mine owned and operated by defendant for that purpose in Harlan County. The two brothers had been working together in the same room of the mine prior to the accident resulting in the death of the elder one on the early morning of the date indicated, which was produced by the falling of a large rocic from…