Boden v. Kewanee Coal & Mining Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
Appellant operates a coal mine. There is a tower or tipple house over the shaft into which the coal is hoisted from the shaft. It is then weighed and dumped into a chute on which the coal runs into cars located on any one of four tracks underneath, which tracks are parallel and run in an easterly and westerly direction. Two of those tracks adjoining each other are known as the "slack” track and the “lump” track. These tracks decline towards the west at a one per cent grade, so that a car loaded at the tipple house and started west by a pinch bar or by being bumped by a car from the east will…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Illinois Central Railroad v. SmithIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
- Mooney v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
- Montgomery Coal Co. v. BarringerIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Illinois Terra Cotta Lumber Co. v. HanleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Kolp v. Decatur Railway & Light Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1908
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- Driza v. Jones & Adams Coal Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1912
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