Stearns Coal Co. v. McPherson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

— Affirming.

The appellee, suing as an infant, and hy his father as next friend, recovered a verdict and judgment against appellant-in the court below for $1,000 damages, resulting from injuries he sustained by inhaling poisonous gases in its mine while engaged in the work of mining coal therein. Though but about 19 years of age when thus injured, appellee became twenty-one between the institution of the action and the trial thereof.

While numerous grounds were filed in the court below in support of appellant’s motion for a new trial, only two of them are…