Clear Fork Coal Company v. Roberts

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board granting compensation to appel-lee, Marshall Roberts, for an injury he received in a truck wreck which occurred on a road on the property of his employer, the appellant, Clear Fork Coal Company. A reversal is urged on the ground that appellee was not injured by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. KRS 342.005(1).

Appellee had been in the employ of appellant for several years. At the time of his injury, he was employed as a coupler oh a gathering motor which…