Clover Fork Coal Co. v. Scoggins

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner-.

—Affirming.

On July 31, 1934, Hattie Scoggins filed a petition with the Workmen’s Compensation Board stating that she was “suing as the next friend (and mother)” of three infant children, and for their use and benefit; that her husband and their' father, Joe Scoggins, was killed by accident in the mines -of the defendant, Clover-Fork Coal Company, on July 1, 1930; that she and the children (one of whom was posthumous) were his dependents; and that on August 27, 1930, the company agreed with her to pay as compensation $12 a week for 333 1/3 weeks,…