Consolidation Coal Co. v. Castle

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Affirming.

Tbe appellee, Harrison Castle, was injured while employed as a brakeman on an electric motor car in appellant’s mine, at Van Lear, Ky. Tbe duties of bis position required bim to couple and uncouple tbe motor and tbe mine cars. Tbe motorman in charge of tbe motor was Frank Hutton.

At tbe time Castle was injured, Hutton was hauling a load of mine timbers into tbe mine. Tbe motor was behind the cars, which it pushed in' front of it. While *216proceeding in this way, the cars bumped against another motor which was standing on the track. Hutton left…