Imperial Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Newsome

WILLIAMS, Judge.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board found that an accident causing injury to appellee Alvis Newsome did not arise out of and in the course of his employment and, consequently, dismissed his claim. Upon appeal to the circuit court the order of the Board was reversed.' 7fhis appeal from the judgment of the circuit court results. The appellee’s cross-appeal has been abandoned.

Appellee was injured by an explosion in a mine some distance from his employer’s tipple, where he had been working. Ap-pellee testified that he went to that mine in search of a shovel to loosen some coal stuck…