Carnego v. Crescent Coal Co.

The deceased was a miner eighteen years of age. He was killed on May 12, 1911, by the fall of slate estimated to have been eight or nine feet wide by nine to fifteen feet long, ten or twelve inches thick, from the roof of the seventh west entry of the defendant’s coal mine No. 6, at the point where the cars were switched to room No. 10. He and his father had been mining in this room three months, but, during the two weeks previous, his brother, Mike Carnego, Jr., and George Katko had been working with them; the four dividing earnings when received. This entry off the back south entry had been…