Elonis v. Lytle Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

We are satisfied, upon a review of the record in this appeal by the employer from a judgment entered upon an award of compensation for total disability, beginning January 22, 1937, that the only question properly here involved is one of law, viz., whether the claimant produced evidence legally competent to sustain the ultimate finding of the referee, adopted by the board, that an infection and degeneration of his right kidney, necessitating its removal, was caused by a blow in his right lumbar region from a falling lump of coal.

The following findings of fact by the…