Flockhart v. Hocking Coal Co.

SheewiN, O. J.—

At tbe time tbe plaintiff was injured he was a driver in tbe defendant’s mine. He was an experienced driver, and bad worked for tbe defendant in that capacity for several months before tbe injury was received. The track on which he was hauling coal at tbe time was a new one, having been put in use for that purpose only the morning of tbe day of tbe accident. There was a knuckle or high point in the entry through which this track ran, and, in taking a trip of loaded ears out, it was necessary to apply a sprag or brake to the ear wheels before the trip had passed entirely over…