Hooks v. Cornett Lewis Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson —

Reversing.

Charley Hooks, a coal loader in the mine of the Cornett Lewis Coal Company, claiming that he had sustained an injury to his hand while going to his place of work, by falling and his hand striking an exposed, running electric water pump, filed this action to recover-damages of the coal company. He asserts in his peti tion that he was ordered by the mine foreman “to work in a new place, or room in which he had never worked before that day and as he was on his way to the room -and whilst walking along the mine entry, he stepped one foot between…