Hendrickson v. New Hughes Jellico Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

Appellant, then nineteen years of age, was employed on the eleventh day of December, 1913, in the mines of appellee at Ely, in Knox county, and while riding on a car of timber that was being taken into the mine was caught between the timbers and a low set-off in the roof of an entry and was severely injured. Upon a trial of this cause instituted by him against appellee to recover for the injuries thus sustained, he recovered'a judgment for $1,000.00, from which he is appealing *569upon the grounds that the trial court erred in the instruction upon the…