Music's Administrator v. Northeast Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

Charlie Music, who was in the employ of the Northeast Coal Company, was killed by a fall of slate in the mine, and this action was brought by his administrator against the coal company to recover for his death. The facts of the case, as shown by the proof on the trial, were, in brief, these: Music worked with a miner named Scott Daniels as his buddy or partner getting out coal. Daniels had been working as a miner for twenty-odd years. Music had been working in the mine for something over a year. He said, when he came to be employed, that…