North East Coal Co. v. Hunley

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Affirming.

Appellee was employed by appellant as a miner, and on the 11th of December, 1912, while he and other workmen, under the direction of a foreman, were engaged in removing pillars or stumps from a mine, a piece of slate fell on and severely and permanently injured him.

His petition charges the company with negligence in failing to furnish to him the necessary timbers with which to prop the roof of the working place, and in failing to exercise ordinary care in furnishing him a reasonably safe place in which to work, and in requiring him to work in an…