Nelson v. American Cement Plaster Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The American Cement Plaster Company owns and operates a gypsum mine and gypsum mill near the town of Blue Rapids, Kan. On the 23d day of July, 1908, Jesse Nelson, a boy about nineteen years, of age, was killed while at work in this mine. The main tunnel or corridor of.the mine extended in about a hundred feet where' there were two rooms, one of these known as room one and the other as room two. In the- operation of the mine it was intended that these-rooms should be drifted side by side leaving a pillar or rib from sixteen to twenty feet…