Elkhorn Coal Corporation v. Diets

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

The appellee, Homer Troy Diets, is a boy under the age of 15 years. The story of his life, though brief, is fraught with tragedy. He was born at some mining camp in Eastern Kentucky at 2 o’clock p. m. on October 26, 1913. His mother was a young woman probably under 20 and his father was about that age. His parents had many stopping places which they called home in the mining sections in Eastern Kentucky. One day the father was killed, and within a few months thereafter his mother married J. W. Lequire. Homer Troy made his home with them for a few…