Black Mountain Corporation v. Williams

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The question at issue is whether there is evidence sustaining the finding of the Workmen’s Compensation Board that W. B. Williams, a miner, died as the result of inhaling poisonous gases produced by smoking insulation on an electric cable. The appellant employer contends that the claimants for compensation did not sustain the burden of proving a compensable death and that it established the employee’s death to have been due to a heart attack.

Williams and three other men were at work in a recess of one of the appellant’s mines when an…