Jones v. Hicks

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, and defendant below, N. A. Jones, owned a farm in Knox county containing about 75 acres which was located some ten miles from Barbour-ville, the county seat. He acquired it some seven years prior to the accident involved - in this litigation. At the time he obtained title to it there was «then located upon it, on the side of a mountain, a small coal mine, designated in the record as a “wagon mine,” the entrance into which was from the side of the mountain, and the mouth of it was something near 40 feet wide, and the opening extended…