Stokes v. Black Hawk Coal Company's Receiver

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Dietzman—

Reversing.

The appellant, Sophia Stokes, a colored woman, by her next friend, John B. Combs, filed her application before the Workmen’s 'Compensation Board asserting a claim for compensation as the widow of Jim Stokes, who, she claimed, had been killed in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment while he was working in the mines of the appellee. The latter defended on the ground, first, that the application for compensation had not been filed in time, and it pleaded the limitations prescribed by section 4914 of the Statutes;…