Williams v. Compensation Commissioner

Rose, Judge:

The Kingston-Pocahontas Coal Company brings here for review an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, made August 12, 1941, by which a ruling of the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, entered May 9, 1941, disallowing compensation to J. B. Williams, an employee of the appellant, was reversed with directions that compensation be awarded the claimant in the statutory amount.

Only a single question is presented here for solution, ■namely, whether the claimant, at the time of his injury, was within the zone of his employment. Williams was a workman in the mine of the…