Consolidated Coal Co. v. Shepherd
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. R. D. W. Holder, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The appellee is a coal miner, and on the 17th day of August, 1902, was employed in mining coal in room No. 11, on the north side of the fourth west entry of the appellant’s coal mine at Breese, Illinois. Room No. 10 in the same entry is situate immediately east of room No. 11, in which appellee was working, and room No. 12 is situate immediately west of room No. 11. The walls dividing these rooms, called by the miners the “ribs” of the room, were of coal, and the plan for the development of the mine required the walls or ribs should be left of the thickness of thirty-five feet. This thickness…
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