Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Sizemore

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

Owen Sizemore was a deputy sheriff of Harlan county, employed by the" appellant to preserve order at its Chevrolet mine. During the night of December 25, 1931, having been informed by a superior that propaganda of the Communists or an objectionable labor-union was being distributed in the mining camp, he went to investigate it. He was shot and killed while undertaking to evict one of those trespassers from the company’s property. The "Workmen’s Compensation Board allowed appropriate compensation to his widow and dependent children. The…