Clark County Construction Co. v. Richards' Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

Appellant operates a stone quarry in which it employs from 50 to 60 laborers, though it has never accepted the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act. The quarry is in the shape of a crescent about 150 feet in length, and the rock face is from 18 to 20 feet high.

On the morning of May 7th, 1921, a large boulder slipped from the surface and fell to the quarry below, rolling over the legs of intestate and producing injuries from which he died shortly thereafter.

In a suit in the Clark circuit court a judgment for $2,500.00 was recovered by…