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Details of Event: 6 July 1927: Compensation Claim Against Coal Company Fails - In the Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff Umpherston issued an interlocutor deciding in favour of respondents an action under the Workmen's Compensation Act at the instance of Miss Margaret Devine, 79 High Street, Carluke , Lanarkshire, sister; and Margaret Devine, also residing there, a minor daughter of the late James Devine, miner, who resided at 42 South Street, Lochgelly, against the Lochgelly Iron and Coal Company (Ltd.). Claimants sought payment of £363 in respect of the death of James Devine, who was injured by accident in course of his employment with respondents at their Dundonald colliery on 8th June 1927, and died on 6th July 1927. The Sheriff finds that the claimants have failed to prove that Devine's death resulted from his injury by accident, and that the respondents are not liable to pay compensation to the claimants. In a note, his Lordship says that Devine' s injuries, though painful at the time, were not serious. The perplexing thing was that, in these circumstances, he was entirely confined to bed for about a week, and died suddenly and unexpectedly when his physician thought he was recovering. After consultation with the Medical Assessor, his Lordship states that he has come to the conclusion that the cause of death was heart failure. [Scotsman 26 May 1928]