Span v. Jackson-Walker Coal & Mining Co.

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff as a coal miner while in the employment of the defendant in a coal mine in the State of Kansas. The case was tried to a jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, resulting in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, from which the defendant appeals.

The action was based upon the statutes of the State of Kansas, which require that “every mine shall be supplied with sufficient prop timber of suitable length and size for the places where it is to be used, and kept in easy access to.”…