Saxton Coal Co. v. Kreutzer's Administratrix

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing’.

The Saxton Coal Company is unincorporated. At the times mentioned herein it operated a small coal mine in which more than five and fewer than fifteen men were employed, but it was without the protection of the workmen’s compensation act.

John A. Kreutzer lost his life while “robbing” the mine for the company on the morning of Monday, October 23, 1916. No one was with him at the time, but shortly thereafter his lifeless, though still warm body, was found at a place where he had been working. It was face down, with a large stone lying diagonally…