Donk Bros. Coal & Coke Co. v. Thil

This was an action in case, in the Circuit Court of Madison county, by appellee against appellant, to recover for a personal injury sustained by appellee while engaged in the service of appellant in its mine as a driver. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for $2,000.

The declaration consists of two counts charging in substance, that while appellee was passing along one of the entries or passageways in appellant’s mine, in the exercise of due care and caution for his own safety, appellant caused explosives to be discharged in the rock roof of the passageway, whereby the…