Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Hensley

Judge Knight

Reversing.

John H. Hensley alias John H. Pace was accidentally killed on September 4, 1943, while employed in one of appellant’s mines in Harlan County. Appellee, claiming to be his widow, filed with the Workmen’s Compensation Board on September 9, 1943 a claim for compensation for his death. At the hearing before the referee a stipulation was filed covering all questions necessary to a recovery except the question as to whether or not appellee is the widow of deceased and was dependent upon him at the time of his death. Since all factors essential to maximum recovery were thus…