Bowman v. Marceline Coal & Mining Co.

Action for damages on account of personal injury sustained by plaintiff while working in defendant’s mine. The jury awarded $1000, and defendant appeals. The injury came about in this wise:

*705Defendant’s coal shaft had two cages, known as the east and west cage, attached to a cable coiled upon a drum in such way that, when the engine rotated this drum so as to raise one of the cars, it lowered the other. The engine was on top of the ground about fifty feet from the mouth of the shaft. When one cage reached the top with a loaded car, the other cage was at the bottom With an empty. Two men, known…