Starne v. People

This was a criminal proceeding commenced before a justice of the peace of Sangamon county. The complaint charged the plaintiff in error, the owner and operator of a coal mine in this State, with failing and refusing to provide and maintain a wash-room, as he was required to do by section 37 of chapter 93, Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1903, which was approved May 14, 1903, and provides:

“That every owner or operator of a coal mine in this State shall provide and maintain a wash-room at a convenient place at the top of each mine for the use of the miners and other employees of such mine; and such…