Elcomb Coal Co. v. Gray's Adm'x

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Baird

— Reversing.

A judgment for $4,500 in favor of Jasper Gray’s administratrix was rendered in the Harlan circuit court against tbe Elcomb Coal Company, a corporation, from wbicb it appeals.

It relies upon a number of grounds for reversal, but its counsel emphasizes only tbe following as the chief ones, practically waiving all others:

“(1) Because the evidence shows that the deceased was not an employee of the appellant, but was an independent contractor and working for. himself;. (2) because the evidence fails to show that the deceased was injured at all or that…