Meyers v. Moxham Coal Co.

Per Curiam,

Claimant’s husband, Nicholas Meyers, an employee of defendant company, was injured March 1, 1920, by falling from a coal car, while engaged at his work, and striking his head on a rail of an adjoining track. The injury received was quite severe, requiring hospital treatment for four weeks. The testimony shows that Meyers worked irregularly, following the accident, until shortly before his death, which occurred July 9, 1926, from “Jacksonian epilepsy” which disease, according to the testimony of the doctors called as witnesses, frequently follows a head fracture similar to that…