Coomes v. Robertson Lumber Company

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board denied compensation to the appellant, William Gerald Coomes, a forty-eight year old employee of the appellee, Robertson Lumber Company, and the circuit court affirmed the Board’s decision on appeal. The appeal to us presents the question of whether the Board had to grant compensation to Coomes as a matter of law.

This is a case where no one saw the accident, and little circumstantial evidence was available to suggest exactly how it happened, yet happen it did, and during the course of Coomes’ employment with the Lumber Company. Coomes drove a…