Burke v. Union Coal & Coke Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This writ of error challenges an instruction to the jury to return a verdict for the defendant upon this state of facts:
The Union Coal & Coke Company, the defendant below, was operating a coal mine and a tunnel 2,000 feet long, which led to entries in the mine. The tunnel was from 5% to 7 feet in height, and there was a railroad track about 7 inches above the level of the floor of the tunnel, and a wire in the right upper corner of it, by means of which and a trolley, cars, which were used to bring the coal from the mines, were moved. There was a switch, by which the…
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