Street v. Consumers Mining Corp.

This is an action of trespass on the case against the Consumers Mining Corporation for negligently causing the death of Noah Street, instituted by the personal representative of Noah Street for the benefit of decedent’s widow. The declaration alleged that Street was employed in the mine of the defendant to drill rock by means of compressed air drills; that in performing this work large quantities of silica rock dust filled the air, which Street inhaled from dav to day, gradually causing him to contract the disease of silicosis from which he died; and that the defendant was negligent in not…