Wyant v. Douglas Coal Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one to recover under the workmen’s compensation act on account of the death of plaintiff’s son, Clarence Wyant. Plaintiff prevailed, and the defendant appeals.

Clarence Wyant died on February 5,1925, as the result of an accident sustained by him December 20, 1924, in the Douglas mine in Linn county. He was thirty-four years old and able-bodied; had been mining coal for about eighteen years. The Douglas mine was shut down during a considerable portion of the time during the year preceding Wyant’s injury. It was operated,…