Caldwell v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Hatcher, Judge:

Caldwell was an employee of Island Creek Coal Company, and seeks compensation for disability which he claims was the result of an injury received while so employed. The compensation commissioner found that the evidence was insufficient to establish that the injury caused the disability.

The injury upon which Caldwell bases his claim was described by him on June 23, 1927, to F. T. Burnham, an inspector of the Compensation Department, as follows: “We were unloading a Jeffrey drill off the truck, had raised it up about two feet, when the other boy slipped on some loose coal…