Lee v. International Harvester Company

PALMORE, Judge.

Let (Lett) Lee appeals from a judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board adopting the findings of its referee and denying his claim for compensation.

The critical question is whether the evidence that Lee sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment was conclusive, leaving the Board no alternative to decide otherwise.

Lee is substantially disabled from what the doctors believe is a herniated disc. 1 He says that while he was lifting a heavy metal pan in appellee’s coal mine on June 14, 1960, he felt a…