What Cheer Coal Co. v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Tn Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa. ■ At Law. Action by Charles A. Johnson against the What Cheer Coal Company for negligence resulting in plaintiff’s injury. Judgment was given for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
On October 19, 1889, Charles A. Johnson, the defendant in error, — hereafter called the plaintiff, —was injured by the fall of a portion of the roof of a room in a mine of the What, Cheer Coal Company, the plaintiff in error. At the time of his injury he was an employe of the coal company, and was engaged with one Ford, another employe of the company, in preparing a place to set a drilling machine that was used to bore holes in the face of the room in which he was working. In order to set this machine, it was necessary to make a hole in the floor of the room for the…
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