Consolidated Coal Co. v. Scheiber

Appellee, a boy of the age of sixteen years, was employed by appellant as a driver in its coal mine in drawing coal to the opening at the bottom of the pit, and after being so employed about five months was injured in his left leg by means of slate falling upon it from the roof of the mine. The injury was such that the limb was afterward amputated above the knee. Before that he had worked in the same mine about eighteen months as helper to the drivers. He recovered a judgment against appellant for $7566.35 on account of the injury, and this judgment has been affirmed in the Appellate Court.

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