Wellman v. Fordson Coal Co.

HatcheR, Judge:

This is an action for the wrongful death of Howard Well-man, in which the plaintiff, as his administrator, recovered a joint judgment against the Fordson Coal Company and McKinley Rose.

The evidence favorable to the plaintiff (which we must accept since the verdict of the jury is for him), -is as follows: The plaintiff, who was the father of the decedent, was an employee of the company, and as such occupied with his family one' of the company’s dwelling houses; across a bridge on the opposite side of the river from his house was.the incline of defendant’s mine; close to the…