Patton v. Travis

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Harris

Reversing. '

The appellant and the appellee were operating under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, KRS 342.001 et seq. — the former as the owner and operator of fluorspar mines, and the latter as a laborer in “timbering in shafts and levels and in laying mud sills therein.” On the 26th day of August, 1942, in the course of his work, the appellee was seriously and permanently injured in his right hand and wrist by the fall of a heavy rock thereon. He testifies: That he now has no feeling and no grip in his hand and can not close it; that it is…