La Follette Coal, Iron & Railway Co. v. Minton

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe. plaintiff below recovered a verdict and judgment against tbe defendant company for tbe sum of $3,000, as damages for personal injuries. Tbe defendant company appealed, and bas assigned errors.

It is alleged in the declaration that tbe defendant company was operating iron ore mines near tbe city of La Follette, in Campbell county, Tennessee, in which what was known as “shaft No. 2,” from which shaft tbe ore was hoisted by means of steam engines, was defective and not up to tbe standard of engineering skill and mining ; and while tbe plaintiff was in tbe…