Wallsend Coal & Coke Co v. Shields' Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

— Reversing.

Hiram Shields, while employed in a mine owned and operated by the Walisend Coal & Coke Company, was struck by a falling rock, and so severely injured that he died in a few months. In this action for damages, his administrator recovered a verdict and judgment against the Walisend Coal & Coke Company in the sum of $7,000. The defendant appeals.

The accident occurred under the following circumstances:

*645Shields was about 30 years of age. Besides other experience in and around mines, he had been a practical coal miner for about five…