Fear v. Ebony Paint Mfg. Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission. The award was in favor of the claimants, but feeling that it was not sufficient in amount, they have appealed.

The facts show that Richard Eugene Rozzell, who lacked approximately one month of being twenty-one years of age, met with .an accidental death on June 1, 1942, while painting the inside of a large water tank standing on a high elevated structure at the plant of the Cudahay Packing Company, in Kansas City, Kansas. The tank had a capacity of 100,000 gallons. It was…