Fowler v. Johnston City & Big Muddy Coal & Mining Co.

Mr.- Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error owns and operates two adjacent and contiguous mines in Williamson county, Illinois. The first mine was sunk and in operation several years prior to the revision in 1911 of the statute on mines and miners, of which enactment section 9 is presented to this court for construction. The first mine, or mine No. 1, complies in every respect with the provision of said section of the statute relative to hoisting and escapement shafts. Subsequent to the enactment of said statute the plaintiff in error sunk mine No. 2, which is…