Woodward Iron Co. v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. William Jackson. Action by H. B. Lewis, administrator, against the Woodward Iron Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. William Jackson. Action by H. B. Lewis, administrator, against the Woodward Iron Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. Count 3 is as follows: “Plaintiff, H. B. Lewis, as-administrator of the estate of James Thomas Lewis, deceased, claims of the defendant, the Woodward Iron Company, $20,000 as damages, for that heretofore, on, to 'wit, the 10th day of December, 1908, plaintiff’s intestate, James Thomas Lewis, a minor under the age of 14 years, was in the employment of the defendant in a certain coal mine at or near…
1Opinion of the Court
MAYFIELD J.
This action is under the employer’s liability act, to recover damages for the wrongful death of a servant, who was a minor not quite 14 years of age. Intestate was employed by defendant to work in its coal mine. He was employed to throw switches for the passage of cars upon a. tram track in the mine. He was killed by one of the cars becoming derailed and striking or passing over him. He had been employed .in the.mine for about 2% years before the accident, and had been at this particular work of throwing, switches for about 2 months prior to.his death. He was therefore to some…
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