Carnahan Oil Refining Company v. Miller

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Beversing.

Preston Miller was an employee of the appellant, Carnahan Oil & Befining Company, working at its refinery and its oil fields in Bussell county. He lived on the south side of the Cumberland river, and for a few days before and on the day he met his death he was engaged in tearing down and removing a tank on the north side of the river. On the morning of December 7, 1926, he crossed Cumberland river in a small boat belonging to the company and tied it up on the north bank. Late in the afternoon he quit work, and rode a horse with a co-laborer…