Atlas Coal Co. v. Nick

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affirming.

The appellant, Atlas Coal Company, appeals from a judgment affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, by which appellee, Charles D. Nick, was awarded fifty per cent permanent partial disability as a result of a compression fracture of the fourth lumbar vertebra which the Board found appellee to have sustained as a result of an accident in appellant’s mine.

Grounds urged for reversal of the judgment are 1) that there was no substantial evidence to sustain the finding of the board and 2) that notice of the claimed accident and injury was…