Money v. Lower Vein Coal Co.

Day J.

■andAIservant: |efsonai°inThe plaintiff is an experienced miner, having been engaged in the business for thirty years, although not acquainted with the formation of roof found in defendant’s mine. At the time of the injury he had been employed in defendant’s mine eight or nine days. He was engaged in breaking a room off of a branch of the main entry. Whilst he was thus employed a portion of the cap rock forming the roof of the entry, the weight of which was variously estimated at from three or four to seven or eight hundred pounds, fell upon him, breaking his left thigh. The evidence…