Sedlock v. Carr Coal Mining & Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 98 Kan. 680
• 159 P. 9
• 1916 Kan. LEXIS 161

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servant — Out of and in the Course of Employment — Workmen’s Compensation Act. A miner, at the end of his day’s work, changed his clothes, and still carrying a miner’s lamp, started towards the bottom of the shaft with the intention of ascending to the top of the mine. About two hundred feet from the room where he had been at work and about one-half mile from the bottom of the shaft, his face came in contact with a piece of slate which was hanging from the roof of the mine and one of his eyes was destroyed. Held, that the injury arose out of and in the course of his employment within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation act and that under its provisions he is entitled to compensation for the injury.</p>