Jones v. Rinehart & Dennis Co.

Maxwell, Pbesident:

This case involves the sufficiency of a declaration for damages for alleged wrongful death. The circuit court overruled a demurrer to the declaration and each count and certified its ruling here.

It is alleged that plaintiff’s decedent was a laborer in the employ of defendant, Rinehart & Dennis Company, Inc., contractor in charge of the construction for The New Kanawha Power Company of “an underground tunnel about thirty-two feet in diameter and about four miles in length, beginning at a point on the North side of New River near the village of Hawks Nest and extending under…