Laas v. Lubic

"Woods, Judge:

This is an action of trespass on the ease brought by an administrator for the wrongful death of his intestate while employed in the defendant’s coal mine. After the plaintiff put in his evidence the defendant demurred to it, in which demurrer the plaintiff joined, and the jury rendered a conditional verdict in favor of the plaintiff. From a judgment entered thereon in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant sued out this writ of error.

On March 10th, 1922, Stanley Marisnik, a miner, was engaged in mining coal in a small mine (of which the defendant was sole owner and operator)…