Nixon v. Raymond City Coal & Transportation Co.

1 Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affiring;

The appellant, Abram H. Nixon, at the time in controversy was employed by the appellee, the Raymond City Coal and Transportation ■ Company, as a crane operator on a “digger,” which is a boat operating on the Ohio river used largely in unloading coal from barges. The digger is equipped with a crane and bucket by means of which coal was being placed in a dump car and carried up the bank of the river on rails to a tipple. The dump car was drawn up the rails to the tipple by means of a cable operating through a pulley at the tipple, the power being…