Stewart v. Wisconsin Steel Co.

Opinion op • the Court by

Judge Quin

Affirming.

William Blanks, a boy about 17 years of age, was employed December 1,1915, by appellee to work in its mines at Benkarn, Kentucky; on the -6th of December, after he had quit work for the evening and had started towards the outside of the mine, he was killed by an explosion; lie was found, in an unconscious, condition, with his body across the track; he was placed upon a stretcher but expired'in a few minutes, and before reaching the-outside of the mine.

The appellee company maintained what is called an “Industrial Accident Department,” which appears…