Elkhorn Coal Corporation v. Tackett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

In June, 1920) Duvall Tackett was accidentally killed while serving the appellant, Elkhorn Coal Corporation, as an employee in one of its mines in Floyd county, Ky. He left surviving him no dependent except his widow, the appellee Lena Tackett. Both employer and employee were operating under our workmen’s compensation statute, and in due time an award, consented to by the parties, was approved by the Compensation Board whereby the widow was to receive, and appellant was to pay to her, the sum of $12 per week for 335 weeks, which it did up to…