Allen v. Columbus Mining Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

In October, 1923, and while working for appellee, Yirgil Allen received a burn from which he died the following February. Thereafter his mother filed application before the workmen’s compensation board for *184compensation for Ms death. From the award of the board the company appealed to the circuit court, which set the award aside, and from that judgment she has prosecuted this appeal.

Both parties had accepted the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as therein provided, and the company defended upon the grounds that decedent’s injury did not…