Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Gayheart

STEWART, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Perry Circuit Court affirming an award to appellees, Martha Gayheart and two of her children, of workmen’s compensation payments adjudged due them because Tilden Gayheart, husband of Martha and father of the children, died as a result of injuries sustained by him while in the employ of appellant, Blue Diamond Coal Company.

Tilden Gayheart was injured in appellant’s mine on October 28, 1959, when a piece of rock (5 feet x 8 to 10 inches) fell and pinned him to the floor. At the hospital his discovered injuries included a bruise…