Clover Fork Coal Co. v. Washington

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Dietzman

■ — Affirming.

On the night of December 6, 1929, George Washington, a colored miner working for the appellant, called in Dr. R. F. Porter, the company doctor, to attend him in an illness. Washington was ill all that night, the next day, and died early on December 8th following. There was made out by Washington’s widow on December 12, 1929, on form 11 of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, an application for the adjustment of her claim for workmen’s compensation based on the death of her husband; she asserting that he had been injured while working in…