Rockhouse Coal Company v. Collins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming

O. C. Collins, a colored man, was an employee of the appellant, Rockhouse Coal Company, in its mine in Letcher county. Both he and the company were operating under our Workmen’s Compensation Act and he sustained an accident compensable thereunder from the effects of which he died, leaving as his sole dependent his widow, the appellee, Eliza Ella Collins. She agreed with appellant and its insurance company that she was only fifty per cent dependent upon her deceased husband, and an application to the board for an award in her favor was made pursuant…