Wallins Creek Collieries Co. v. Jones and W. C. B.

Affirming.

The appellee Elbert Jones was employed as a laborer in the colliery of appellant, Wallins Creek Collieries Company, in Harlan county, Kentucky. Both had accepted the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act.

On the 5th day of July, 1923, appellee was injured by reason of an accident which strained and injured him in the chest, side and back in lifting a car on to the mine track. Appellee insisted that the injury resulted in consumption of the lungs and wholly disabled him; that he is unable and has been unable ever since the receipt of his injury to perform labor. Appellant, on…