BENNETT v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY


375 S.W.2d 403 (1964)

Marvin Earl BENNETT, Appellant, v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence T. Gordon (Franklin & Gordon), Madisonville, for appellant.

James M. Graves, Louisville, for appellee.


MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming the refusal of the Workmen's Compensation Board to grant the appellant compensation for a claimed disability.

Appellant had been employed as a coal miner by appellee for over thirty-five years when he was trapped for a period of 41½ hours by a mine cave-in on May 29, 1959. It is admitted that he suffered no physical injury during the cave-in and his resulting entrapment. In fact, he...

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