Waldron v. Garland Pocahontas Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, McDowell County. Action by Guy F. 'Waldron, as administrator of bis son, Philip Waldron, deceased, against the Garland Pocahontas Coal Company for damages for deceased’s death. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively, Judge:
From a verdict and judgment for $10,000.00, rendered on tbe 17tb day of February, 1921, defendant prosecutes tbis writ of error.
Plaintiff instituted this action for damages as administrator of Philip Waldron, alleging that’the intestate, his son, a boy between the age of 13 and 14 years, was negligently killed while in the employ of defendant in its mine on September 11, 1919.
The defense relies on two grounds; (1) contributory negligence on the part of the father and administrator, in that he consented to or acquiesced in the employment of the boy in the mines; and (2) that at…
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