High Splint Coal Co. v. Campbell

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Appellant High Splint Coal Company was operating- a coal mine and had elected to prosecute the undertaking- under the protection of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Ky. St. 1922, sec. 4880 et seq. as amended. Appellee, Herschel Campbell, was one of its employees and had signed the register. In the course of his employment he was injured by falling- slate, his most serious injury being a broken jawbone. For the ensuing temporary total disability he has 'been paid in full. His motion to have the case reopened presented the question whether as…