Royko v. Logan Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

It is clear, under all the evidence in this workmen’s compensation case, that John Royko, the husband of the claimant, while in the course of his employment on December 16, 1937, as a miner in one of the defendant company’s coal mines, suffered an internal injury to the physical structure of his body, consisting of the rupture of an ulcer which for a considerable, but indefinite, period of time had been developing in his jejunum— the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and ileum — and that the immediate cause of his death on the following day was a…