Young v. Tackett

REED, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The employee, Willie Tackett, a 43-year-old coal miner, injured his low back while lifting slate in his employer’s mine. Tack-ett sustained a compensable injury which rendered him totally and permanently disabled. The Special Fund was brought into the compensation proceedings to determine whether responsibility for part of the liability for payment of compensation benefits should be allocated to the Fund. The Board decided that the Special Fund was not liable under the evidence presented. The circuit court, upon an appeal prosecuted to it by…