Harlan-Wallins Coal Corporation v. Stewart

CAMMACK, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment approving an award of compensation to George Stewart for a complicated fracture 'of his left wrist, sustained when he fell on ice on his way home from work in one of the appellant’s mines. The appellant is urging that the judgment be reversed because Stewart’s injury did not arise out of and in the course of his employment.

At the time Stewart fell, all of the ground in the vicinity of the mine was covered with snow and ice. When he came out of the mine, he left his lamp at the lamp house and started walking home along the gravel on the edge…