Fuller v. Margaret Mining Co.

McWhorter, Judge:

Elijah Fuller, while employed as a coal loader in one of the mines of the Margaret Mining Company, a corporation, was, on the 23rd day of January, 1906, injured by a fall of slate and on the 28th day of June, 1906, instituted in the circuit court of Mingo county his action of trespass on the case against said mining company, laying his damage at $20, - 000.. The declaration alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in not providing a safe place for its employees to work and in employing a mining boss who was incapable and incompetent as inside overseer.

At a regular term…