Bon Air Coal & Iron Corp. v. Johnson

The employer, Bon Air Coal & Iron Corporation, appealed from the judgment of the circuit court awarding the employee, SamL. Johnson, compensation, under chapter 123, Acts of 1919, of $12 a week for three hundred weeks.

The employee, a mine worker, was injured by slate falling from the roof of the mine, which, according to his insistence, caused the fracture of the femur near the hip joint and injured the hip and hack; and the combined injury to the leg, hip, and hack resulted in a permanent partial disability, not specifically mentioned in the act, provided for in the last paragraph of section…