Bradley v. State Compensation Commissioner

Litz, President:

Claude Bradley, unmarried, colored World War veteran, while engaged as a coal loader for the Buffalo-Eagle Mines, Inc., at Braeholm, Logan County, March 8, 1929, sustained an injury from powder explosion resulting in the removal of one eye and practically total blindness to the other.

On January 29, 1930, the compensation commissioner, after an ex parte investigation, denied the claimant compensation on the ground that he was at the time of the injury using a short fuse in violation of the mining laws of West Virginia. Upon a hearing, demanded by the claimant under section 43,…