Lay's Adm'r v. Harlan Producers Coal Corp.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

For some four or five years previous to July 27, 1934, Charlie Lay was in the employ of the appellee and defendant below, Harlan Producers Coal Corporation, mainly as a practical electrician. His duties chiefly consisted in constructing and maintainng outside wiring for telephone and electrical purposes in the operation of defendant’s small coal mine, and in furnishing and supplying its miners’ residences with such utilities, as well as supplying the Company itself with them. As such employee he had prior to that time constructed and installed an…