Wells Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Vanhoose

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Appellant is a coal mining corporation, and operates a mine- in Floyd county under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Appellee was in 1923 an employee of appellant and had accepted the provisions of that act. While engaged in the operation of a small engine at appellant’s tipple and in “picking slate-”' out of the coal as it passed over a moving screen, he was-injured on the i29th of October, 1923.

In December or January thereafter, the parties filed before the compensation board their written agreement that the employee was…