Goode v. Central Coal & Coke Co.

Plaintiff’s, action is to recover damages for the death of her husband who was a miner engaged in mining coal for defendant. The judgment in the trial court was for the plaintiff.

This is the second appeal. The first is found reported in 167 Mo. App. 169 to which we refer for a general statement of the case. The petition charges that deceased while eating his noon lunch “at a point in the mine from fifteen to twenty-five feet north of his working place”, was killed by a large and heavy rock falling from the roof upon him. The usual allegations of negligence were charged, in that defendant…