Wilkinson v. Kanawha & Hocking Coal & Coke Co.

Miller, Judge:

The coal from defendant’s mine number 117 at Orlen Ferris in Fayette county is brought out on cars of two tons capacity, drawn by mules, over tracks distributed through the mine and extending out over a horizontal plane, whence the cars are let down in pairs over parallel tracks built upon an incliné to a tipple at the railroad below, a distance of twelve hundred feet. The point at which the inclines begins is called the “knuckle,” from its resemblance to a bent finger. The mechanism employed to lower the loaded cars and elevate the empty ones consists of a large drum, around…