Bryant v. Meyer Coal, Ice, Storage & Transfer Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jqchems, J.:

This was an action for compensation under the former workmen’s compensation law. (R. S. 44-501 et seq.) Judgment was awarded to plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

The alleged injury occurred on December 31, 1926. Plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant and was unloading coal from a Rock Island coal car which had been sidetracked on the Burlington switch at Seventh and Choctaw streets in Leavenworth, Kan. The defendant company, by whom plaintiff was employed as a driver of one of its trucks, operates a coal yard' and an ice and…