Central Coal & Iron Co. v. Owens

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

George Owens was in tbe employment of the Central Coal and Iron Company as a driver in its mine taking-out with a mule ears of coal from the room in the mine to the main lye-wav. Another driver by the name of Snyder was engaged with him in the same entry. Their method of doing the business was to hitch the mnle_ to two cars and take out two cars at a time, one following the other. Between the point where they started and the point to which they were to take them, a heavy curtain was placed across the entry and in going out with the coal,…