Pine Hill Coal Co. v. Gusicki
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Action by Mary Gusicki against the Pine Hill Coal Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
Julian Gusicld, on the 22d of April, 1914, while in the employ of the plaintiff in error at its mines at Minersville, Pa., met an accidental death, leaving a widow and six minor children. In this action the widow sought to recover damages caused by reason of his death. The laws of Pennsylvania provide a right of action to the widow, and this action was brought in conformity therewith.
The deceased, with other miners, had finished his day’s work and was leaving the mine, using a steel cage as a way therefrom, ascending in a perpendicular shaft. The floor of this cage was…
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