Canoy v. State Compensation Commissioner

KeNna, Judge :

R. W. Canoy was a slate and timber man in the mines of Pocahontas Fuel Company at Switchback, West Virginia. He was killed while walking on state route No. 8 by being run down by an automobile on the afternoon of October 16, 1931. On the application of his dependent widow, the commissioner denied compensation for the reason that the injury causing death did not occur in the course of and result from the employment of deceased by the company. The widow appealed.

The proof before the commissioner discloses that state route No. 8 bisects the property of Pocahontas Fuel Company for a…