Ewing v. Lanark Fuel Co.

Williams, Judge :

Jackson M. Ewing, an infant 13 years and 9 months old, was injured on the'7th day of January, 1907, while engaged in coupling cars in the defendant’s coal mine in the county of Raleigh, as a result of which injury his right leg was amputated two or three inches above the knee. He sued the company, by next friend, for negligently causing the injury, and obtained a judgment for $8,000.00. ‘ There was a single track leading into the mine for a distance of about 500 feet. At this point it branched into two parallel tracks called a parting. This parting was about 200 feet in…