Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Duncan

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

— Affirming.

"While in the employ of the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company, Emanuel Duncan sustained an accidental injury and was awarded compensation at the rate of $11.70 per week for 300 weeks with interest on past.-dué payments, the whole amount not to exceed $4,000. The award was affirmed by the McCreary circuit court, and by this court. Stearns Coal & Lumber Company v. Duncan, 258 Ky. 346, 80 S. W. (2d) 4. A few days later Duncan was paid $1,600 in settlement of the claim and the case was reinstated and stricken from the docket. 'About a year later Duncan…