Jenkins v. Heaberlin

Maxwell, Judge :

Lon Jenkins was killed December 30, 1924, in tbe mines of the Bottom Creek Coal Company at Vivian, in McDowell County. Proof of claim was filed for compensation by Lucy Jenkins, Ms mother, in May, 1925. From Alabama where she resided she and her attorney corresponded lengthily and frequently with the compensation commissioner in regard to payment of the claim. It appears from this correspondence that the commissioner required additional and more specific proof of the amount of money contributed by Lon to his mother during the year prior to his death, and for this reason…