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Details of Event: 12 April 1938: A Buckhaven widow who, on behalf of herself and her two children, raised an action against the Wemyss Coal Company, East Wemyss for the sum of £482 8s in respect of compensation following the death of her husband, has had her claim dismissed at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court. The claimant was Mrs Eliza Jane Lynch or M'Lean, 19 Wilhelmina Street, Buckhaven, whose husband, James M'Lean, was killed on April 12. 1938. In the course of an interlocutor issued yesterday, Sheriff-Substitute J. W. More states that the deceased was employed as a surface worker in the woodyard at the railway sidings of the Michael Colliery, East Wemyss. On April 12. 1938, deceased, along, with a man named John Tulloch and two others, was engaged in filling waggons with corrugated iron sheets. About midday deceased said to Tulloch that he was going away, and left his working place. Shortly thereafter he was found lying dead between the rails at the west side of the northmost siding. The Sheriff says it is admitted that deceased was fatally injured by being squeezed between two trucks which formed part of a train operating on that siding, and he adds that deceased had no work to do in the course of his employment at or near the place he was killed. Finding that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of deceased's employment with the respondents. Sheriff More dismisses the claim and finds respondents entitled to expenses. [Scotsman 23 May 1939]