Rolling v. Jeddo-Highland Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The parties to this compensation case apparently are more concerned with the legal problems involved than with the amount of compensation claimed by the appellant employee — $15 per week from May 6 to June 8, 1934.

Claimant’s employment with the defendant company was that of a mine roadman. On the morning of April 28, 1934, while riding to his work at its Jeddo No. 4 Shaft upon a “lokey” (locomotive) and tender he was injured when they collided, several thousand feet from the shaft, with a train coming from the opposite direction. That morning he had walked from his…