Rogers v. St. Louis-Carterville Coal Co.

On September 15, 1910, the appellee, Louis Rogers, was working as a carpenter for the appellant, the St. LouisCarterville Coal Company, on the buildings at its mine in Williamson county. His leg was broken by the fall of a piece of wood, four by four inches in thickness and about ten feet in length, from a platform on the tipple where the appellee had left it unfastened, and he brought this suit in the circuit court of said county for the consequent damage. His cause of action was founded on an alleged willful failure to comply with the provisions of the act concerning mines and mining then…