Nashville Coal Co. v. Epley

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Paul Epley died during the morning of July 22, 1957, after he had entered appellant’s mine where he was employed as foreman. A fellow employee testified that Ep-ley sat down on a bench, slumped forward and toppled to the ground. His head hit a rail of the mine track and his body came to rest with his knees, arms and forehead lying across the track. Within a few minutes he was dead. The bench on which he had been seated had not overturned. No autopsy was performed, nor was there any medical testimony to establish the cause of his death. The only physical evidence of an…