James v. Emmet Mining Co.

This action was brought under the statute to recover damages for the death of Thomas James, claimed to have been caused by the negligence of his employers. He was a laborer, and not a miner, and was employed on work of various kinds about their mine and premises. His death was caused by caving in of the surface over the mine, where he was at the time engaged in removing pumping apparatus and pipes from the mine, where work was, or was about to be, abandoned. Upon the surface over the vein, which ran east and west, there were a shaft-house over the shaft nearest to the place of the accident, a…