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STAPLETON v. ASHLAND OIL, INC.

No. 85-1260.

774 F.2d 622 (1985)

Sandra STAPLETON; William Stapleton, Appellants, v. ASHLAND OIL, INC., a Kentucky corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.F. Salsbery, Jr., Parkersburg, W.Va. (Barbara H. Fleisher, Preiser & Wilson, Charleston, W.Va., on brief), for appellants.

Paul A. Billups, Huntington, W.Va. (Michael J. Farrell, Jenkins, Fenstermaker, Krieger, Kayes & Farrell, Huntington, W.Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Principles of law pushed to their extremes frequently find themselves at war with one another. Their mutual accommodation, so that they may live, if in tension, nevertheless, at peace with one another, becomes the responsibility of the courts. The principles underlying the workmen's compensation statutes of West Virginia are simply that a) an employee injured in the course of his or her employment should receive compensation irrespective...

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