Joseph Taylor Coal Co. v. Dawes

This was an action on the case brought by the appellee against the appellant in the circuit court of St. Clair county to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been sustained by the appellee while in the employ of the appellant as a-coal miner, by reason of the cage upon which he was descending into the mine of the appellant being lowered by appellant’s engineer at an excessive and prohibited rate of speed. The declaration contained three counts. The first count charged that the cage was lowered into the mine at a rate of speed in excess of six hundred feet per minute, in willful…