United Status Fuel Co. v. Industrial Commission

Mr. Justice; Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court:

December 2, 1920, Marcel Lannoy, a young man twenty-three years old, who was then, and had been for six or seven years, in the employ of the United States Fuel Company, defendant in error, was due at his work at the mine at 8:3o P. M. His mother prepared his lunch for him and he took his bucket and started for the mine about 7:4o P. M. Ordinarily it took him seven or eight minutes to walk from his home to the mine. At 7:5o P. M. the pumpman, who was working a few feet from the bottom of the shaft, heard the crash of a falling object, and…