Interstate Coal Co. v. Shelton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

*41This action was brought by the appellee, Joe Shelton, administrator of the estate of Lee Hamblin, deceased, to recover' of the appellant, Interstate Coal Company, damages for the death of his intestate; it being alleged in the petition that his death was caused by the negligence of the appellant in failing to provide him, as its employe, with a reasonably safe place in which to perform his work. When killed Hamblin was engaged with other employes of the appellant in making repairs upon its: coal tipple, and while standing upon a platform used in…