Buck v. Citizens' Coal Mining Co.

This is an action brought in the circuit court of Sangamon county at the March term, 1911, by Forest L- Buck, plaintiff, by his next friend, against the Citizens’ Coal Mining Company, defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while in the employ of defendant as a driver in one of its mines. The defendant defaulted, and the court, after hearing the evidence, rendered judgment against it for $1500. A writ of error was sued out of the Appellate Court for the Third District, and upon a hearing in that court the judgment of the circuit court was…