SEXTON v. BLACK STAR COAL CORPORATION


296 S.W.2d 450 (1956)

Ernest SEXTON et al., etc., Appellants, v. BLACK STAR COAL CORPORATION, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doyle B. Inman, Middlesboro, for appellants.

Logan E. Patterson, James S. Wilson, Pineville, for appellee.


STEWART, Judge.

Ernest Sexton, age 36, prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court which set aside an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board on the ground that he had failed to give timely notice of his alleged accident and injury to his employer, Black Star Coal Corporation.

Sexton claimed he was injured the night of August 5, 1953, in his employer's mine while he and a fellow workman, Joe Lee, were lifting a timber weighing about...

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