Duff v. Black Diamond Collieries

The petition herein was filed for the purpose of recovering compensation under chapter 128, Acts of 1919, as amended by chapter 40, Acts of 1927.

Charles Duff, Jr., was accidentally killed on February 15, 1922, while in the employ of the Black Diamond Collieries. Duff was survived by his wife and two very young children.

Oin February 21,1922, Mrs. Duff entered-into a written agreement of settlement, under the terms of which the employer was to pay her $11 per week for four hundred weeks, funeral expenses, etc. This agreement was never approved by tbe circuit judge. The payments were made…