Moore v. State Compensation Commissioner

Maxwell, Peesident:

This case involves a review of the compensation commissioner’s refusal of compensation to James Moore on the ground that his injuries were self-inflicted. The compensation statute expressly denies compensation to a workman on account of injury purposely self-inflicted. Code 1931, 23-4-2.

In the forenoon of January 9, 1932, while employed as a coal loader in a mine of the Kingston-Pocahontas Coal Company, claimant severed his left index and middle fingers between the first distal and middle joint with an ax. No one else was present at the time the injury was received.…