Turner v. State Compensation Commissioner

Browning, Judge:

On petition of the claimant, James H. Turner, this Court granted an appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of January 15, 1962, wherein the Board reversed the State Compensation Commissioner and held claimant not to be entitled to compensation benefits.

Claimant and Sidney Morrison were assigned to the job of roof bolting in the mine of the Pocahontas Fuel Company at Bishop, Virginia, which job required them to operate a “pin-up” or “pinning” machine. The two men had worked together for two to four months previous to September 16, 1959, and in the words…