Case ID: okla_128/html/0190-02.html
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Author: {"author": "MASON, V.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TAHONA SMOKELESS COAL CO. v. STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.
    No. 18600.
    Opinion Filed Dec. 13, 1927.
    (Syllabus.)
    Master and Servant — Workmen's Compensation — Syllabus Adopted.
    The syllabus in cause No. 18598, Tahona Smokeless Coal Company v. State Industrial Commission and F. E. Barclay, opinion this day filed (128 Okla. 188, 261: Pac. 941), is adopted as the syllabus in this case.
    Original action in the Supreme Court by the Tahona Smokeless Coal Company to re.'view an award of the State Industrial Commission in favor of Lester Rachels.
    Petition denied.
    T. T. Varner and Webb Covington, for .petitioner.
    Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., Ralph G. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and H. H. ‘Thomas, for respondents.
   MASON, V.

C. J. The respondent, Lester Rachels, sustained an accidental injury while in the employ of Fred Clayton, who was op•erating a coal mine near Tahona, Okla., under a contract with the Tahona Smokeless •Coal Company, the owner of said mine.

After a hearing, the State Industrial Commission found that Rachels was in the employ of Clayton; that Clayton was a lessee •or subcontractor of the Tahona Smokeless ■Coal Company; that said company had failed to require a compliance with the Workmen’s Compensation Law on the part ■of Clayton; that Clayton had failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by law; that Clayton was, there•fore, primarily liable to Rachels for compensation and that the Tahona Smokeless Coal Company was secondarily liable for such compensation, from which finding and award the coal company brings the case here for review.

The samé contentions are here made as were made in cause No. 18598, Tahona Smokeless Coal Company v. State Industrial Commission and P. E. Barclay, the opinion ■of which has this day been filed, and said decision is decisive of the issues herein presented, and the syllabus in that case is adopted as the syllabus in this ease.

The award of the State Industrial Commission is, therefore, affirmed.

BRANSON, C. J., and HARRISON, LESTER, HUNT, CLARK, RILEY, and HEFNER. ,T.T., concur.